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William Faulkner was one of America's most innovative novelists. In a career lasting more than three decades, Faulkner published 19 novels, more than 80 short stories, 2 books of poems, and numerous essays. He was born in New Albany, Mississippi on September 25, 1897 and lived most of his life in Oxford. Faulkner received the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature, and two of his novels, A FABLE (1954) and THE REIVERS (1962), each won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. On the morning of July 6, 1962, after twenty days of suffering from back injury, Faulkner died of an unexpected heart attack. He was buried in St. Peter's Cemetery of Oxford.
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By 1944, William Faulkner was a literary footnote. Though in the 1930s, he’d produced a string of important novels, including The Sound and the Fury and Light in August. Only one, Sanctuary, was still in print, and it was the one he claimed to have written purely for the money. Since 1935 he’d been supporting his family by travelling to Hollywood part of each year to write screenplays for the motion picture industry. He’d begun to have some success there, but as a novelist, Faulkner was all but forgotten in his own country.
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Distinguished American author William Faulkner has written numerous classic novels and has won both the Pulitzer and Nobel Prizes. Many of his works have been adapted into films including Sound and the Fury (1959) and The Reivers (1969). Though others adapted his work, Faulkner refused to adapt it himself. He did ... work on the screenplays of others and frequently worked in conjunction with Howard Hawks. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
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In 1957, William Faulkner came to the University as its first Writer-in-Residence. While writer-in-Residence at the University, William Faulkner became aware of the Massey collection of his works, and despite his native diffidence and pretended unconcern, this awareness undoubtedly contributed to his wish, reaffirmed by his wife and daughter, to have his manuscripts and typescripts made available at the University of Virginia, where they might serve to supplement and complement a rather more than adequate representation of his life's work. He accepted reappointment for the year 1957-58. Continuing his service to the University, he accepted appointment as Consultant on American Literature to the Alderman Library. Then, in 1961 he was elected Balch Lecturer in American Literature, a position which he held until his death.
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William Faulkner (1897-1962), who came from an old southern family, grew up in Oxford, Mississippi. He joined the Canadian, and later the British, Royal Air Force during the First World War, studied for a while at the University of Mississippi, and temporarily worked for a New York bookstore and a New Orleans newspaper. Except for some trips to Europe and Asia, and a few brief stays in Hollywood as a scriptwriter, he worked on his novels and short stories on a farm in Oxford.
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William Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi, on September 25, 1897; he would die in 1962 just 50 miles away. He had lived in New York, New Orleans, Hollywood, and Virginia, but he always returned—in body and in his work—to his home state. In a career that made him one of America’s most revered modern authors, he wrote 17 novels, 13 of which are set in Mississippi. The setting served as a prism, through which he could examine themes—racism, poverty, war, alienation—that transcend region and time. For Faulkner, the most important geography mapped not place but past, the deeply etched tracks of ancient sins on living souls, the inescapable rush of ancestral blood in modern veins. Born 110 years ago today in the rural South, Faulkner left a body of work that confronted the past as it summoned a new era in storytelling.
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