Profession: Author and Nobel Laureate
Nationality: 
American
Biography: He is known for his works such as "The Sound and the Fury," "A Fable" in 1954 and his last novel in 1962 "The Reivers", for which he won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
Born: September 25, 1897
Birthplace: New Albany, Mississippi, USA
Generation: Lost Generation
Star Sign: Libra
Married Life
- 1929-06-20 Author William Faulkner (31) weds Estelle Oldham at College Hill Presbyterian Church outside Oxford, Mississippi
Historical Events
- 1932-02-19 William Faulkner completes his novel "Light in August"
- 1942-05-11 William Faulkner's collections of short stories, "Go Down, Moses", is published
- 1950-11-10 Nobel Prize for literature awarded to William Faulkner "for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel"
- 1958-03-08 William Faulkner says US school degenerated to become babysitters
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