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William Faulkner

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William Faulkner (1897-1962) was an American novelist and Nobel laureate whose work helped define Southern literature in the twentieth century. Best known for The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, and Absalom, Absalom!, he wrote with unmatched ambition about memory, family, race, violence, and the history of the American South. His fiction is known for its depth, difficulty, and lasting influence on modern literature. He grew up in Oxford, Mississippi.

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Series

Snopes


A Literary Fiction series (1940 - 1959)

Standalone Fiction

Soldiers' Pay

Mosquitoes

The Sound and the Fury

Sartoris

As I Lay Dying

A Rose for Emily

A Rose for Emily

Short story

These 13

These 13

Short story collection

Sanctuary

Light in August

Pylon: The Corrected Text

Absalom, Absalom!

The Unvanquished

The Wild Palms

Go Down, Moses

Go Down, Moses

Short story collection

Intruder in the Dust

Collected Stories

Collected Stories

Short story collection

Knight's Gambit

Knight's Gambit

Short story collection

Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner

Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner

Short story collection

Requiem for a Nun

A Fable

Big Woods: The Hunting Stories

Big Woods: The Hunting Stories

Short story collection

New Orleans Sketches

New Orleans Sketches

Short story collection

Three Famous Short Novels: Spotted Horses Old Man The Bear

The Reivers

Flags in the Dust

Father Abraham

Standalone Non-fiction

Essays, Speeches & Public Letters

Works of Poetry

The Marble Faun and A Green Bough

Ole Miss Juvenilia

Children & Middle Grade Books

The Wishing Tree

Little Stacks of Classics & Literary Fiction

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