American author William Faulkner (1897-1962) became famous for his novels set in the American South, often in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County. In 1949, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature for “his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel.” Carl Rollyson, Professor...

A prolific author of dozens of books, including Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, and Absalom, Absalom, William Faulkner (1897-1962) was one of the 20th century’s most preeminent American writers. His literary contributions included poetry, novels, short stories and screenplays. He won two Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction and...