William Faulkner

William Faulkner
William Faulkner
	Faulkner in 1954
Born	William Cuthbert Falkner; 25 September 1897; New Albany, Mississippi, U.S.
Dee'd	6 Julie 1962 (aged 64); Byhalia, Mississippi, U.S.
Leid	Inglis
Naitionality	American
Alma mater	Varsity o Mississippi; (na degree)
Period	1919–1962
Notable warks	The Sound and the Fury; As I Lay Dying; Light in August; Absalom, Absalom!; A Rose for Emily
Notable awairds	Nobel Prize in Leeteratur ; 1949 ; ; Pulitzer Prize for Feection ; 1955, 1963 ; ; Naitional Beuk Awaird ; 1951, 1955 ; ;
Spoose	Estelle Oldham (1929–1962; his daith)
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William Cuthbert Faulkner (September 25, 1897 – Julie 6, 1962) wis an American writer an Nobel Prize laureate frae Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner writ novelles, short stories, a play, poyetry, essays, an screenplays. He is primarly kent for his novelles an short stories set in the feectional Yoknapatawpha Coonty, based on Lafayette Coonty, Mississippi, whaur he spent maist o his life.^[3]

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↑ [1]."The two great men in my time were Mann and Joyce. You should approach Joyce's Ulysses as the illiterate Baptist preacher approaches the Old Testament: with faith."
↑ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e [2]."No, the books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends: the Old Testament, Dickens, Conrad, Cervantes, Don Quixote—I read that every year, as some do the Bible. Flaubert, Balzac—he created an intact world of his own, a bloodstream running through twenty books—Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Shakespeare. I read Melville occasionally."
↑ Obituary Variety, July 11, 1962.