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[[File:William Faulkner.jpg|thumb|Portrait of Faulkner by Carl Van Vechten]]

[[File:William Faulkner.jpg|thumb|Portrait of Faulkner by Carl Van Vechten]]

'''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.

'''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.

Essentially self-taught and [[homeschooling|homeschooled]], Faulkner never graduated from high school.

Essentially self-taught and [[homeschooling|homeschooled]], Faulkner never graduated from high school.

''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>

''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>

He married his teenaged sweetheart after she, under pressure from her family, married but a decade later divorced another man.<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>

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