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Other InformationAwardsNobel Prize for Literature [1949] Literature/PublicityBooks AuthoredFather Abraham [1983] Sartoris/Flags in the Dust (written 1929) [1973] The Reivers [1962] The Mansion [1959] The Town [1957] A Fable [1954] Requiem for a Nun [1951] Intruder in the Dust [1948] Go Down, Moses [1942] The Hamlet [1940] If I Forget Thee Jerusalem (The Wild Palms/Old Man) [1939] The Unvanquished [1938] Absalom, Absalom! [1937] Pylon [1935] Light in August [1932] Sanctuary [1931] As I Lay Dying [1930] The Sound and the Fury [1929] Mosquitoes [1927] Soldiers` Pay [1926] |
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William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American novelist and poet whose works feature his native state of Mississippi. He was regarded as one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century and was awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Faulkner`s writing is often criticized as being dense, meandering and difficult to understand due to his heavy use of such literary techniques as symbolism, allegory, multiple narrators and points of view, non-linear narrative, and especially stream of consciousness. Faulkner was known for an experimental style with meticulous attention to diction and cadence, in contrast to the minimalist understatement of his peer Ernest Hemingway. Along with Mark Twain and possibly Tennessee Williams, Faulkner is considered to be one of the most important "Southern writers". He was relatively unknown before receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949, but his work is now favored by the general public and critics. Biography Credit: celebrifi.com/celebrities/William-Faulkner# |
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Trivia and QuotesQuotes All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible. The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Clocks slay time... time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life. To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow. A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction. Don`t bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. The past is not dead. In fact, it`s not even past. The artist doesn`t have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don`t have the time to read reviews. All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.Trivia A legendary, but possibly apocryphal, story about Faulkner relates how, after he had been hired by 20th Century-Fox as a screenwriter, he had been sitting around the Fox writers building for a few weeks without having done anything. A producer who had seen him wandering around the building asked what he was doing, and Faulkner replied that he had nothing to do. The producer asked if he had any ideas for a story. Faulkner replied that he had, but he would be better able to write it at home rather than in the Writers Building. The producer told him it was OK to go home, assuming that Faulkner meant the home in Hollywood that the studio was renting for him. A few days later the producer got a call from Faulkner, who had indeed gone home--to Oxford, Mississippi.
While working in Hollywood, was friends with screenwriter A.I. Bezzerides and actor Humphrey Bogart.
Frequently worked with Howard Hawks.
Interred at Saint Peter`s Cemetery, Oxford, Mississippi.
Though Faulkner wrote well over one hundred short stories, only one of them, `Golden Land, ` is set in Hollywood.
His screenplay for Ernest Hemingway`s novel To Have and Have Not (1944) marks the only time in film history that two Nobel Prize-winning authors were associated with the same motion picture.
The character of the alcoholic Southern novelist-turned screenwriter W. P. Mayhew in the movie Barton Fink (1991) is based loosely on Faulkner.
Born at 11:0pm-CST
Was awarded the 1949 Nobel prize in literature.
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