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William Cuthbert Faulkner (/ ˈ f ɔː k n ər /; [1] [2] September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer. He is best known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County , Mississippi , a stand-in for Lafayette County where he spent most of his life.
William Faulkner is widely considered the greatest writer of Southern literature, and one of the most esteemed writers of American literature.. William Faulkner (1897—1962) [1] was an American writer who won the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature.
The Sound and the Fury is a novel by the American author William Faulkner.It employs several narrative styles, including stream of consciousness.Published in 1929, The Sound and the Fury was Faulkner's fourth novel, and was not immediately successful.
In the autumn or winter of 1926, William Faulkner, twenty-nine, began work on the first of his novels about Yoknapatawpha County. Sherwood Anderson had told him some time before that he should write about his native Mississippi, and now Faulkner took that advice: he used his own land, and peopled it with men and women who were partly drawn from real life, and partly depicted as they should ...
MISSISSIPPI: William Faulkner. William Faulkner. CORBIS/Corbis/Getty Images. ... As The New York Times noted, at the time of his death, "all 101 of Mr. L'Amour's books — 86 novels, 14 short ...
Emily Grierson is a fictional character in the short story "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner. Grierson is a spinster living alone in Faulkner's fictional Jefferson, Mississippi with an overbearing father. The townspeople feel sympathy for her after her father's death and try to help her cope with life alone.
The Prince of Wales has said he and Catherine are "shocked and saddened" by the death of his former nanny's stepson, Edward Pettifer, who was killed in the New Orleans attack. The 31-year-old was ...
To make the change you suggest would require gaining concensus on the change—a good starting place might at the talk page for that template. Until then, this Faulkner infobox is about William Faulkner—Estelle Faulkner's death is given in the text of section '1.1 Person life' and the phrase 'his death' after 1962 makes the date unambiguous ...