William Faulkner
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William Cuthbert Faulkner 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 spe
Faulkner in 1954
Faulkner was influenced by stories of William Clark Falkner, his paternal great-grandfather and namesake.
Faulkner as a cadet in the Canadian RAF, 1918
During part of his time in New Orleans, Faulkner lived in a house in the French Quarter (pictured center yellow).
The Sound and the Fury
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The Sound and the Fury is a novel by the American author William Faulkner, published in 1929. Faulkner's fourth novel, it is the second to be set in Yoknapatawpha County and the first featuring the Co
William Faulkner
…first novel Soldiers' Pay (1925). He went back to Oxford and wrote Sartoris (1927), his first work set in Yoknapatawpha County. In 1929, he published The Sound and the Fury. The following year, he wrote As I Lay Dying. Later that decade, he wrote Light in August; Absalom, Absalom!; and The Wild Palms. He also worked as a…
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