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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 . Faulkner made his debut as a published writer at the age of 21 with the poem ...
William Faulkner generally is regarded as one of the most significant American writers of all time. Faulkner wrote 13 novels and many short stories but started as a poet. With his breakthrough novel, The Sound and the Fury, he began to use stream of consciousness to portray a character’s flow of inner thoughts.
Faulkner reads from The Sound and The Fury (side one) and Light in August (side two). Produced by Jean Stein, who also did the liner notes with Edward Cole. Cover photograph by Robert Capa (Magnum) William Faulkner reads the 1949 Nobel Prize acceptance speech and excerpts from As I Lay Dying, The Old Man and A Fable.
William Faulkner. , The Art of Fiction No. 12. Interviewed by Jean Stein. Issue 12, Spring 1956. Mr. Faulkner’s self portrait, 1956. William Faulkner was born in 1897 in New Albany, Mississippi, where his father was then working as a conductor on the railroad built by the novelist’s great-grandfather, Colonel William Falkner (without the ...
May 18, 2018 · William Faulkner >William Faulkner (1897-1962), a major American 20th-century novelist, >chronicled the decline and decay of the aristocratic South with an >imaginative power and psychological depth that transcend mere regionalism. William Faulkner was born on Sept. 25, 1897, in New Albany, Miss.
William Faulkner(25. září1897New Albany, Mississippi, USA– 6. července1962Oxford, Mississippi, USA) byl americkýprozaik, scenáristaa básník, nositel Nobelovy ceny za literaturuza rok 1949. Je považován za zakladatele americké jižanské literatury 20. století.
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. He is best known for his cycle of works set in fictional Yoknapatawpha County, which ...
