William Faulkner

William Faulkner was born in 1897 in New Albany, Mississippi, the great-grandson of a Confederate colonel who wrote novels. He left high school without a diploma and, rejected according to tradition by the American air service because of his height, joined the British air service in Canada by passing himself off as English. A postal clerk at the University of Mississippi, he resigned in 1924, then became a screenwriter in Hollywood. Awarded the Nobel Prize in 1949 for his powerful and unique contribution to the modern American novel, he gave part of it to a fund for young writers and later received two Pulitzer Prizes. He died in 1962.

In the catalogue 2

• NovelThe Sound and the FuryWilliam Faulkner · 1929Literature
• NovelAbsalom, Absalom!William Faulkner · 1936Literature