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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.
Requiem for a Nun is a work of fiction written by William Faulkner. [1] It is a sequel to Faulkner's early novel Sanctuary, which introduced the characters of Temple Drake, her friend (later husband) Gowan Stevens, and Gowan's uncle Gavin Stevens.
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.
That Evening Sun" is a short story by the American author William Faulkner, published in 1931 in the collection These 13, which included Faulkner's most anthologized story, "A Rose for Emily". The story was originally published, in a slightly different form, as "That Evening Sun Go Down" in The American Mercury in March of the same year. [1]
Collected Stories of William Faulkner is a short story collection by William Faulkner published by Random House in 1950. It won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1951. [1] The publication of this collection of 42 stories was authorized and supervised by Faulkner himself, who came up with the themed section headings. [2]
Fiction, Film, and Faulkner: The Art of Adaptation is a 1988 non-fiction book by Gene D. Phillips, published by University of Tennessee Press. It is about William Faulkner , his works, and film adaptations of his works.
A Fable is a 1954 novel written by the American author William Faulkner. He spent more than a decade and tremendous effort on it, and aspired for it to be "the best work of my life and maybe of my time". [2] It won the Pulitzer Prize [3] and the National Book Award. [4] Historically, it can be seen as a precursor to Joseph Heller's Catch-22.
These 13 is a 1931 collection of short stories written by William Faulkner, [1] and dedicated to his first daughter, Alabama, who died nine days after her birth on January 11, 1931, and to his wife Estelle. No longer in print, These 13 is now a collector's item. These 13, Faulkner's first release of short stories, contained the following stories: