William Cuthbert Faulkner was born in 1897 and raised in Oxford, Mississippi, where he spent most of his life. One of the towering figures of American literature, he is the author of The Sound and the Fury, Absalom, Absalom!, and As I Lay Dying, among many other remarkable books. Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1950 and France's Legion of Honor in 1951. He died in 1962.
“No man ever put more of his heart and soul into the written word
than did William Faulkner. If you want to know all you can about
that heart and soul, the fiction where he put it is still right
there.” —Eudora Welty
“Faulkner’s greatness resided primarily in his power to transpose
the American scene as it exists in the Southern states, filter it
through his sensibilities and finally define it with words.”
—Richard Wright
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