William Cuthbert Faulkner (September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American novelist and short story writer. Winner of the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature, his most famous works include The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, and Light in August.1
Works
Novels
- Soldiers’ Pay (1926)
- Mosquitoes (1927)
- Sartoris (1929)
- The Sound and the Fury (1929)
- As I Lay Dying (1930)
- Sanctuary (1931)
- Light in August (1932)
- Pylon (1935)
- Absalom, Absalom! (1936)
- The Unvanquished (1938)
- If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem (1939)
- The Hamlet (1940)
- Go Down, Moses (1942)
- Intruder in the Dust (1948)
- Requiem for a Nun (1951)
- A Fable (1954)
- The Town (1957)
- The Mansion (1959)
- The Reivers (1962)
- Flags in the Dust (1973)
Plays
- Marionettes (1921)
Poetry
- Vision in Spring (1921)
- The Marble Faun and A Green Bough (1924)
- Helen, a Courtship and Mississippi Poems (1981)
Story collections
- These 13 (1931)
- Knight’s Gambit (1949)
- Collected Stories (1950)
Screenplays
- Flesh (1932)
- Today We Live (1933)
- The Road to Glory (1936)
- Submarine Patrol (1938)
- To Have and Have Not (1944)
- The Big Sleep (1945)
Children’s books
- The Wishing Tree (1927)
See also
External Links
- William Faulkner papers at the University of Maryland
- William Faulkner collection at Yale University
- Digital Yoknapatawpha
- Faulkner at Virginia: An Audio Archive
- The Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Society
- Interview with The Paris Review (Spring 1956)
- Goodreads profile
- IMDb profile
- Nobel Prize profile
- Poetry Foundation profile
- Works on Faded Page
- Works on Internet Archive
- Works on LibriVox
References
1. “William Faulkner.” Encyclopedia Britannica. Accessed July 27, 2020.
