A Dictionary of American History

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Author: Thomas L. Purvis  | Date: 1995

Faulkner, William

Faulkner, William (b. New Albany, Miss., 25 September 1897; d. Byhalia, Miss., 6 July 1962) After brief service in the Canadian air force in World War I, Faulkner attended the University of Mississippi (1919–21), but did not earn a degree. He first achieved commercial success with Sanctuary (1931), a gothic novel laced with prurient elements. He lived in Oxford, Miss., wrote nineteen novels and seven volumes of short stories, and became the leading figure in the “southern renaissance” of literature. Although he set his fiction in the South—especially his mythical “Yoknapatawpha County, Miss.”—Faulkner examined questions about human character, destiny, and psychology in such depth that he elevated the South’s regional culture to a level of profound universal relevance. He won Pulitzer prizes for A Fable (1954) and The Reivers (1962), and received the Nobel prize for literature in 1949. Other major works include The Sound and the Fury (1929), Light in August (1932), Absolom, Absolom (1936), Go Down, Moses, and Other Stories (1942), and Intruder in the Dust (1948).

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Chicago: Thomas L. Purvis, "Faulkner, William," A Dictionary of American History in A Dictionary of American History (Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell Reference, 1995), Original Sources, accessed June 3, 2023, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=KQK3CMVVS87TGVJ.

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