A tense and troubling tale of how a dark past can return to tear apart a hard-won present peace.
Born in 1897 in New Albany, Mississippi, William Faulkner was the
son of a family proud of their prominent role in the history of the
south. He grew up in Oxford, Mississippi, and left high school at
fifteen to work in his grandfather's bank.
Rejected by the US military in 1915, he joined the Canadian flyers
with the RAF, but was still in training when the war ended.
Returning home, he studied at the University of Mississippi and
visited Europe briefly in 1925.
His first poem was published in The New Republic in 1919. His first
book of verse and early novels followed, but his major work began
with the publication of The Sound and the Fury in 1929. As I Lay
Dying (1930), Sanctuary (1931), Light in August (1932), Absalom,
Absalom! (1936) and The Wild Palms (1939) are the key works of his
great creative period leading up to Intruder in the Dust (1948).
During the 1930s, he worked in Hollywood on film scripts, notably
The Blue Lamp, co-written with Raymond Chandler.
William Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949
and the Pulitzer Prize for The Reivers just before his death in
July 1962.
A revolutionary novelist - he experiments with narration like no
other
*Guardian*
His mind to him a kingdom was; or rather, a county, Yoknapatawpha.
He breathed on it and gave it life, a luminous world of rustics,
comic and sinister, of inchoate historical processes and tragic
human beings, earning dignity by endurance
*Independent*
The magnitude of Faulkner's characters lies in their blood and bone
and sinew: the exquisite specificity of their human fallibility...
Faulkner seemed incapable of separating intimate character from
universal truth, and this rough refusal - both humble and defiant -
was at the root of his force as a writer... No other American
writer has achieved such staggering heights of form
*Boston Globe*
There is tension and passion enough in this drama. The impetus
never fails
*Observer*
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