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William Cuthbert Faulkner (/ ˈ f ɔː k n ər /; [1] [2] September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) 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 spent most of his life.
The Southern Renaissance (also known as Southern Renascence) [1] was the reinvigoration of American Southern literature in the 1920s and 1930s with the appearance of writers such as William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe, Caroline Gordon, Margaret Mitchell, Katherine Anne Porter, Erskine Caldwell, Allen Tate, Tennessee Williams, Robert Penn Warren, and Zora Neale Hurston, among others.
Brodsky was also a noted Faulkner scholar and poet. He was the author of William Faulkner: Life Glimpses, [2] a collection of biographical essays, and he is co-editor, with Robert W. Hamblin, of the five-volume Faulkner: A Comprehensive Guide to the Brodsky Collection, plus three additional volumes based upon materials in the collection. [3]
William Faulkner: 1929 Mind of the South: Wilbur Cash: 1929 Look Homeward, Angel: Thomas Wolfe: 1929 To Kill a Mockingbird: Harper Lee: 1960 The Color Purple: Alice Walker: 1982 Their Eyes Were Watching God: Zora Neale Hurston: 1937 Absalom, Absalom! William Faulkner: 1936 Lanterns on the Levee: William Alexander Percy: 1941 All the King's Men ...
Absalom, Absalom! is a novel by the American author William Faulkner, first published in 1936.Taking place before, during, and after the American Civil War, it is a story about three families of the American South, with a focus on the life of Thomas Sutpen.
William Faulkner (born William Cuthbert Falkner, 1897–1962), American author William Falkner (divine) (died 1682), English cleric with the Anglican Church William Clark Falkner ( c. 1826–1889), American soldier, businessman, author and the great-grandfather of William Faulkner
William Faulkner is widely considered the greatest writer of Southern literature, and one of the most esteemed writers of American literature.. William Faulkner (1897—1962) [1] was an American writer who won the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Faulkner's great-grandfather William Clark Falkner, himself a colonel in the American Civil War, served as the model for Colonel John Sartoris. Faulkner also fashioned other characters in the book on local people from his hometown Oxford. His friend Ben Wasson was the model for Horace Benbow, while Faulkner's brother Murry served as the ...