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William Cuthbert Faulkner (/ ˈ f ɔː k n ər /; September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where Faulkner spent most of his life.
May 23, 2024 · William Faulkner, American writer who won the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature and is best known for his works set in fictional Yoknapatawpha County. His notable novels include The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Absalom, Absalom!, and Light in August.
Biographical. William Faulkner (1897-1962), who came from an old southern family, grew up in Oxford, Mississippi. He joined the Canadian, and later the British, Royal Air Force during the First World War, studied for a while at the University of Mississippi, and temporarily worked for a New York bookstore and a New Orleans newspaper.
William Faulkner. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1949. Born: 25 September 1897, New Albany, MS, USA. Died: 6 July 1962, Byhalia, MS, USA. Residence at the time of the award: USA. Prize motivation: “for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel”. Language: English.
William Faulkner, orig. William Cuthbert Falkner, (born Sept. 25, 1897, New Albany, Miss., U.S.—died July 6, 1962, Byhalia, Miss.), U.S. writer. Faulkner dropped out of high school and only briefly attended college. He spent most of his life in Oxford, Miss.
May 23, 2024 · William Faulkner. Novelist William Faulkner, photograph by Carl Van Vechten, c. 1954. The Nobel Prize had a major impact on Faulkner’s private life.
Mar 31, 2016 · William Cuthbert Faulkner (b. 1897–d. 1962) grew up in Oxford, Mississippi, where his great-grandfather William Clark Falkner (sic), a writer, Confederate colonel, and railroad founder, was a local legend. Although he was a high-school dropout, Faulkner, emulating his ancestor, voraciously read the classics and began to write poetry.
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.
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1949 was awarded to William Faulkner "for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel" William Faulkner received his Nobel Prize one year later, in 1950.
William Faulkner (1897—1962) [1] was an American writer who won the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is best known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, a stand-in for his hometown of Oxford in Lafayette County, Mississippi .
