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William Faulkner
(William Cuthbert Falkner)
(1897 - 1962)William Faulkner was born in 1897 in Mississippi. He left high school at fifteen to work in his grandfather's bank. Rejected by the US military in 1915, he joined the Canadian flyers but was still in training when the war ended. Returning home he studied at the University of Mississippi. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950. He died in 1962.
Awards: Pulitzer (1963), NBA (1955), Nobel (1949) see all
Genres: Literary Fiction
Series
Sin and Salvation
1. Sartoris (1929)
2. The Sound and the Fury (1929)
3. As I Lay Dying (1930)
4. Sanctuary (1931)
5. Light in August (1931)
6. Absalom, Absalom! (1936)
7. Requiem for a Nun (1951)
1. Sartoris (1929)
2. The Sound and the Fury (1929)
3. As I Lay Dying (1930)
4. Sanctuary (1931)
5. Light in August (1931)
6. Absalom, Absalom! (1936)
7. Requiem for a Nun (1951)
Novels
Soldiers Pay (1926)
Mosquitoes (1927)
Pylon (1935)
The Unvanquished (1938)
The Wild Palms (1939)
aka If I Forget Thee Jerusalem
Intruder in the Dust (1948)
A Fable (1954)
The Reivers (1962)
Flags in the Dust (1973)
Mosquitoes (1927)
Pylon (1935)
The Unvanquished (1938)
The Wild Palms (1939)
aka If I Forget Thee Jerusalem
Intruder in the Dust (1948)
A Fable (1954)
The Reivers (1962)
Flags in the Dust (1973)
Collections
These 13 (1931)
Doctor Martino (1934)
Go Down, Moses (1942)
The Portable Faulkner (1946)
Knight's Gambit (1949)
Collected Stories of William Faulkner (1950)
Big Woods (1955)
New Orleans Sketches (1958)
Three Famous Short Novels (1958)
Selected Short Stories of William Faulkner (1961)
The Wishing Tree (1964)
A Faulkner Miscellany (1974)
Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner (1979)
The Essential Faulkner (2013)
Collected Stories (2018)
Ole Miss Juvenilia (poems) (2018)
William Faulkner: Stories (2023)
Doctor Martino (1934)
Go Down, Moses (1942)
The Portable Faulkner (1946)
Knight's Gambit (1949)
Collected Stories of William Faulkner (1950)
Big Woods (1955)
New Orleans Sketches (1958)
Three Famous Short Novels (1958)
Selected Short Stories of William Faulkner (1961)
The Wishing Tree (1964)
A Faulkner Miscellany (1974)
Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner (1979)
The Essential Faulkner (2013)
Collected Stories (2018)
Ole Miss Juvenilia (poems) (2018)
William Faulkner: Stories (2023)
Novellas and Short Stories
Non fiction show
Books containing stories by William Faulkner
100 Years of the Best American Short Stories (2015)
(Best American Short Stories)
edited by
Lorrie Moore and Heidi Pitlor
The Best American Short Stories of the Century (2008)
(Best American Short Stories)
edited by
Katrina Kenison and John Updike
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William Faulkner recommends
The Last Voyage: and Other Stories (1997)
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Winesburg, Ohio (1919)
Sherwood Anderson
"He was the father of my generation of American writers and the tradition of American writing."
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