William Faulkner
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Born | William Cuthbert Falkner 25 September 1897 New Albany, Mississippi, U.S. |
Dee'd | 6 Julie 1962 Byhalia, Mississippi, U.S. | (aged 64)
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 |
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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]
References
[eedit | eedit soorce]- ↑ [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.
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