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William Faulkner’s speech at the Nobel Banquet at the City Hall in Stockholm, December 10, 1950 *. Ladies and gentlemen, I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work – a life’s work in the agony and sweat of the human spirit, not for glory and least of all for profit, but to create out of the materials of the human spirit something which did not exist before.
1897–1962. Carl van Vechten. One of the 20th century’s greatest novelists, William Cuthbert Falkner, as his name was originally spelled, never graduated from high school. He was born in New Albany, Mississippi, the first of four sons, and moved with his family to Oxford, Mississippi, at the age of five. As a young man, influenced by the ...
W ILLIAM F AULKNER. 1949 Nobel Laureate in Literature. for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel. Background. 1897-1962 Residence: U.S.A. Book Store. Books by William Faulkner. Books about William Faulkner.
William Faulkner (1897 - 1962) is an iconic figure in American literature, particularly in the genre of Southern Gothic literature. Highly influenced by the black nanny who raised him, Callie Barr, and his mother and grandmother's encouragement of his visual imagination, his novels usually explored the politics of sexuality and race. In ...
May 30, 2023 · Get to know the works of William Faulkner, whose inventive literature made him one of America’s most remarkable writers.--William Faulkner is considered one ...
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William Faulkner, the renowned American author, was born on September 25, 1897, in Mississippi. His father, Murry Cuthbert Falkner, was a businessman, and his mother, Maud Butler, was a homemaker. After his birth, the family relocated to Ripley, Mississippi, where his father took over his grandfather’s business.
Aug 8, 2020 · Michael Gorra, an English professor at Smith, believes Faulkner to be the most important novelist of the 20th century. In his rich, complex, and eloquent new book, The Saddest Words: William ...
