William Faulkner

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

• William Faulkner quotes

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.