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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 of [[Mississippi]], and its only Nobel laureate, winning the [[Nobel Prize]] for Literature in 1949. He was reportedly recommended to the committee by a [[Sweden|Swedish]] journalist who translated American novelists. | + | '''William Faulkner''' (September 25, 1897 - July 6, 1962) was a Nobel and [[Pulitzer Prize|Pulitzer prize]] winning American [[author]]. He was a lifelong resident of [[Mississippi]], and its only Nobel laureate, winning the [[Nobel Prize]] for Literature in 1949. He was reportedly recommended to the committee by a [[Sweden|Swedish]] journalist who translated American novelists. Prior to winning the famous prize his works were mostly out-of-print. |
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| − | Essentially self-taught and [[homeschooling|homeschooled]], Faulkner never graduated from high school. | + | Essentially self-taught and [[homeschooling|homeschooled]], Faulkner never graduated from high school. Both of his parents were from wealthy families which had lost everything due to the [[Civil War]]. |
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| | Faulkner is most famous for writing ''The Sound and the Fury'' (1929), ''As I Lay Dying'' (1930),<ref>''As I Lay Dying'' contains 56,903 words and relatively high use of the passive voice. [http://prosecraft.io/library/william-faulkner/as-i-lay-dying/]</ref> 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),<ref>''As I Lay Dying'' contains 56,903 words and relatively high use of the passive voice. [http://prosecraft.io/library/william-faulkner/as-i-lay-dying/]</ref> 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> |
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| − | Faulkner wrote about the fall of Southern aristocracy. Difficult to follow, his works are creative and explore psychological aspects of his characters. [[Liberal]]s like Faulkner for his mockery of southern whites, which Faulkner does in the form of stream-of-consciousness in ''As I Lay Dying''. | + | Faulkner wrote about the fall of Southern aristocracy. Difficult to follow, his works are creative and explore psychological aspects of his characters. The names for his fictional location (Yoknapatawpha County) and individuals are often hard to pronounce. [[Liberal]]s like Faulkner for his mockery of southern whites, which Faulkner does in the form of stream-of-consciousness in ''As I Lay Dying''. |
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| − | ''Absalom, Absalom!'' is widely considered the greatest southern novel ever written. In Faulkner's characteristically bizarre style, this novel contains the longest sentence in [[America]]n literature: 1,228 words.<ref>http://www.openculture.com/2019/03/when-william-faulkner-set-the-world-record-for-writing-the-longest-sentence-in-literature.html</ref> (Other very long sentences are in Jonathan Coe’s ''The Rotter’s Club'' (a 13,955 word sentence) and James Joyce's ''Ulysses'' (a 4,391 word sentence).<ref>https://thejohnfox.com/long-sentences/</ref> | + | ''The Sound and the Fury'' is considered Faulkner's finest work, which consists of four segments narrating a single day each, three in 1928 and one in 1910. They are written as stream-of-consciousness, one of which was a mentally impaired person. ''Absalom, Absalom!'', another of Faulkner's novels, is considered by [[liberal]]s to be the greatest southern novel ever written, although [[conservative]]s would consider ''Gone With the Wind'' to earn that honor. In Faulkner's characteristically bizarre style, this novel contains the longest sentence in [[America]]n literature: 1,228 words.<ref>http://www.openculture.com/2019/03/when-william-faulkner-set-the-world-record-for-writing-the-longest-sentence-in-literature.html</ref> (Other very long sentences are in Jonathan Coe’s ''The Rotter’s Club'' (a 13,955 word sentence) and James Joyce's ''Ulysses'' (a 4,391 word sentence).<ref>https://thejohnfox.com/long-sentences/</ref> |
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| | Faulkner eventually married his childhood sweetheart in 1929, after she divorced the man she had married a decade earlier, under pressure from her family.<ref>https://www.notablebiographies.com/Du-Fi/Faulkner-William.html</ref> | | Faulkner eventually married his childhood sweetheart in 1929, after she divorced the man she had married a decade earlier, under pressure from her family.<ref>https://www.notablebiographies.com/Du-Fi/Faulkner-William.html</ref> |