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| − | '''William Faulkner''' (September 25, 1897 - July 6, 1962) was a Nobel and [[Pulitzer Prize|Pulitzer prize]] winning American [[author]]. He was a lifelong resident [[Mississippi]], and its only Nobel laureate, winning the [[Nobel Prize]] for Literature in 1949 as reportedly recommended to the committee by a | + | '''William Faulkner''' (September 25, 1897 - July 6, 1962) was a Nobel and [[Pulitzer Prize|Pulitzer prize]] winning American [[author]]. He was a lifelong resident [[Mississippi]], and its only Nobel laureate, winning the [[Nobel Prize]] for Literature in 1949 as reportedly recommended to the committee by a [[Sweden|Swedish]] journalist who translated American novelists. |
Faulkner is most famous for writing ''The Sound and the Fury'' (1929), ''As I Lay Dying'' (1930) and ''Absalom, Absalom!'' (1936).<ref>http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~egjbp/faulkner/faulkner.html</ref><ref>http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1949/faulkner-bio.html</ref><ref>http://almaz.com/nobel/literature/1949a.html</ref><ref>http://www.booksfactory.com/writers/faulkner.htm</ref> | Faulkner is most famous for writing ''The Sound and the Fury'' (1929), ''As I Lay Dying'' (1930) and ''Absalom, Absalom!'' (1936).<ref>http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~egjbp/faulkner/faulkner.html</ref><ref>http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1949/faulkner-bio.html</ref><ref>http://almaz.com/nobel/literature/1949a.html</ref><ref>http://www.booksfactory.com/writers/faulkner.htm</ref> | ||
Revision as of 03:49, October 23, 2019
William Faulkner (September 25, 1897 - July 6, 1962) was a Nobel and Pulitzer prize winning American author. He was a lifelong resident Mississippi, and its only Nobel laureate, winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949 as reportedly recommended to the committee by a Swedish journalist who translated American novelists.
Faulkner is most famous for writing The Sound and the Fury (1929), As I Lay Dying (1930) and Absalom, Absalom! (1936).[1][2][3][4]
Faulkner wrote about the fall of Southern aristocracy. Difficult to follow, his works are creative and explore psychological aspects of his characters. Liberals like Faulkner for his mockery of southern whites, which Faulkner does in the form of stream-of-consciousness in As I Lay Dying.
"Absalom, Absalom!" is widely considered the greatest southern novel ever written.
He married his teenaged sweetheart after she, under pressure from her family, married but a decade later divorced another man.[5]
References
- ↑ http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~egjbp/faulkner/faulkner.html
- ↑ http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1949/faulkner-bio.html
- ↑ http://almaz.com/nobel/literature/1949a.html
- ↑ http://www.booksfactory.com/writers/faulkner.htm
- ↑ https://www.notablebiographies.com/Du-Fi/Faulkner-William.html