William Faulkner
William Faulkner
QUICK FACTS * NAME: William Faulkner * OCCUPATION: Author * BIRTH DATE: September 25, 1897 * DEATH DATE: July 06, 1962 * EDUCATION: University of Mississippi * PLACE OF BIRTH: New Albany, Mississippi * PLACE OF DEATH: Byhalia, Mississippi * FULL NAME: William Cuthbert Faulkner * AKA: William Faulkner * ORIGINALLY: William Cuthbert Falkner * AKA: William Falkner
BEST KNOWN FOR
William Faulkner was a Nobel Prize-winning novelist of the American South, who wrote challenging prose and created the fictional Yoknapatawpha County. He is known for novels like Sartoris.
Synopsis
American writer William Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi in 1897. Much of his early work was poetry, but he became famous for his novels set in the American South, frequently in his fabricated Yoknapatawpha County, includingSartoris. In 1933, his controversial novel Sanctuary was turned into a Hollywood film. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature before his death in 1962.
QUOTES
"It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work."
– William Faulkner
Younger Years
A Southern writer through and through, William Cuthbert Falkner (the original spelling of his last name) was born in the small town of New Albany, Mississippi, on September 25, 1897. His parents, Murry Falkner and Maud Butler Faulkner, named him after his paternal great-grandfather, William Clark Falkner, an adventurous and shrewd man who seven years prior was shot dead in the town square of Ripley, Mississippi. Throughout his life, William Clark Falkner worked as a railroad financier, politician, soldier, farmer, businessman, lawyer and—in his twilight years—best-selling author (The White Rose of Memphis).
The grandeur of the “Old Colonel,” as almost everyone called him,
QUICK FACTS * NAME: William Faulkner * OCCUPATION: Author * BIRTH DATE: September 25, 1897 * DEATH DATE: July 06, 1962 * EDUCATION: University of Mississippi * PLACE OF BIRTH: New Albany, Mississippi * PLACE OF DEATH: Byhalia, Mississippi * FULL NAME: William Cuthbert Faulkner * AKA: William Faulkner * ORIGINALLY: William Cuthbert Falkner * AKA: William Falkner
BEST KNOWN FOR
William Faulkner was a Nobel Prize-winning novelist of the American South, who wrote challenging prose and created the fictional Yoknapatawpha County. He is known for novels like Sartoris.
Synopsis
American writer William Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi in 1897. Much of his early work was poetry, but he became famous for his novels set in the American South, frequently in his fabricated Yoknapatawpha County, includingSartoris. In 1933, his controversial novel Sanctuary was turned into a Hollywood film. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature before his death in 1962.
QUOTES
"It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work."
– William Faulkner
Younger Years
A Southern writer through and through, William Cuthbert Falkner (the original spelling of his last name) was born in the small town of New Albany, Mississippi, on September 25, 1897. His parents, Murry Falkner and Maud Butler Faulkner, named him after his paternal great-grandfather, William Clark Falkner, an adventurous and shrewd man who seven years prior was shot dead in the town square of Ripley, Mississippi. Throughout his life, William Clark Falkner worked as a railroad financier, politician, soldier, farmer, businessman, lawyer and—in his twilight years—best-selling author (The White Rose of Memphis).
The grandeur of the “Old Colonel,” as almost everyone called him,