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William Faulkner

Also known as William Cuthbert Faulkner, William Falkner, William Cuthbert Falkner

American writer (1897-1962)

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William Faulkner was a male person born on 25 September 1897 and died on 6 July 1962. His work period began in 1919 and ended in 1962. He is recognized in the Pulitzer Prize collection and the Nobel Literature collection. He received one Nobel Prize.

His top works include The best of Faulkner, Pylon, Monk, Rose of Lebanon, and Big woods. He is associated with alternative rock, indie rock, rock and indie, and singer-songwriter genres. Similar artists include Ernest Hemingway, John Updike, Cormac McCarthy, Herman Melville, and James Joyce. He has 1196 listeners and a playcount of 15384 on Last.fm.

Faulkner is referenced by 2,060 other encyclopedia articles. His works count varies across sources, with records showing 5, 1049, or 2 works. A quote attributed to him is: "Why that's a hundred miles away. That's a long way to go just to eat." His IPA transcription is "ˌwɪljəm ˈfɔːknər".

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Person · Open Library

Born: 25 September 1897
Died: 6 July 1962
Works: 1049

Top works

The best of Faulkner
Pylon
Monk
Rose of Lebanon
Big woods

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Male
Origin: United Kingdom
Active from: 1985-01-11

alternative rockindie rockrock and indiesinger-songwriter

Discography

Official site Discogs Stream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 1,196
Total plays: 15,384

Similar artists

Ernest HemingwayJohn UpdikeCormac McCarthyHerman MelvilleJames Joyce

William Cuthbert Faulkner (September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American novelist, film screenwriter, and poet whose works feature his native state of Mississippi. He is regarded as one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century and was awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature. 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. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/William+Faulkner">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

VMD: Visual molecular dynamics
· 1996 · cited 62,950x
Theory of the firm: Managerial behavior, agency costs and ownership structure
· 1976 · cited 44,827x
Comparison of simple potential functions for simulating liquid water
· 1983 · cited 39,551x
QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data
· 2010 · cited 30,946x
Preparation of Graphitic Oxide
· 1958 · cited 28,681x

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Quotes

“For the holy are susceptible too to evil, even as you and I, signori; they too are helpless before sin without God's aid... and the holy can be fooled by sin as quickly as you or I, signori. Quicker, because they are holy.”
“Be scared. You can't help that. But don't be afraid. Ain't nothing in the woods going to hurt you unless you corner it, or it smells that you are afraid. A bear or a deer, too, has got to be scared of a coward the same as a brave man has got to be.”
“It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless, no refuse save the printed books; I wish I had enough sense to see ahead thirty years ago, and like some of the Elizabethans, not signed them. It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: He made the books and he died.”
“There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event it's a thing I need.”
“Why that's a hundred miles away. That's a long way to go just to eat.”
“Some folks wouldn't even speak when they passed me on the street. Then MGM came to town to film Intruder in the Dust, and that made some difference because I'd brought money into Oxford [Mississippi]. But it wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand thirty thousand dollars.”

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Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize in Literature1949
“for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel”

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: Cuthbert
Gender: male
Citizenship: United States
Place of birth: New Albany
Place of death: Byhalia
Sibling: John Faulkner
Occupation: writer
Educated at: University of Mississippi
Languages spoken: English language
Native language: American English
Religion: Presbyterianism
Award: Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Notable work: Absalom, Absalom!
Field of work: novel
Genre: screenplay
Movement: modernist literature
Image: Carl Van Vechten - William Faulkner (greyscale and cropped).jpg

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topic's main category: Category:William Faulkner
cause of death: myocardial infarction
Commons category: William Faulkner
date of birth: 1897-09-25
date of death: 1962-07-06
manner of death: natural causes
Commons gallery: William Faulkner
birth name: William Cuthbert Falkner
member of: American Academy of Arts and Letters
nominated for: Nobel Prize in Literature
archives at: Harry Ransom Center
influenced by: Honoré de Balzac
writing language: English language
start of work period: 1919-00-00
name in native language: William Cuthbert Faulkner
end of work period: 1962-00-00
IPA transcription: ˌwɪljəm ˈfɔːknər
related category: Category:Films with screenplays by William Faulkner
Commons Creator page: William Faulkner
P12674: Andreas Maurer

Sources (11)

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Works in European collections

2 objects attributed to William Faulkner, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

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Encyclopedic overview

William Cuthbert Faulkner (/ˈfɔːknər/; September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer. He is best known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, a stand-in for Lafayette County where he spent most of his life. Winner of the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature, Faulkner is one of the most celebrated writers of American literature, often considered the greatest writer of Southern literature and regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century.

Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi, and raised in Oxford, Mississippi. During World War I, he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force, but did not serve in combat. Returning to Oxford, he attended the University of Mississippi for three semesters before dropping out. He moved to New Orleans, where he wrote his first novel Soldiers' Pay (1925). He went back to Oxford and wrote Sartoris (1927), his first work set in Yoknapatawpha County. In 1929, he published The Sound and the Fury. The following year, he wrote As I Lay Dying. Later that decade, he wrote Light in August; Absalom, Absalom!; and The Wild Palms. He also worked as a screenwriter, contributing to Howard Hawks's To Have and Have Not and The Big Sleep, adapted from Raymond Chandler's novel. The former film, adapted from Ernest Hemingway's novel, is the only film with contributions by two Nobel laureates.

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