William Faulkner

**William Faulkner** (born **William Cuthbert Falkner**), (September 25, 1897–July 6, 1962) was an American author. One of the most influential writers of the twentieth century, he was awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature. His reputation is based on his novels, novellas, and short stories. However, he was also a published poet and also was a screenwriter. He is now deemed among the greatest American writers of all time.

## Awards

Faulkner received the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature  for "his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel." He donated a portion of his Nobel winnings "to establish a fund to support and encourage new fiction writers," eventually resulting in the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction. He donated another portion to a local Oxford bank to establish an account to provide scholarship funds to help educate African-American education majors at nearby Rust College in Holly Springs, Mississippi.

Faulkner won two Pulitzer Prizes for what are considered as his "minor" novels: his 1954 novel _A Fable,_ which took the Pulitzer in 1955, and the 1962 novel, _The Reivers,_ which was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer in 1963. He also won two National Book Awards, first for his _Collected Stories_ in 1951 and once again for his novel _A Fable_ in 1955.

In 1946, Faulkner was one of three finalists for the first _Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine_ Award. He came in second to Manly Wade Wellman.

## Legacy

The PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction has its name, in part, as a tribute to Faulkner, because he was one of the main inspirations of Mary Lee Settle, a founder of the PEN/Faulkner Foundation; Faulkner was an inspiration because he used his 1949 Nobel Prize money to fund awards for younger writers.

In 1987, the United States Postal Service issued a 22 cent postage stamp in his honor.

### Novels

- _Soldiers' Pay_ (1926)
- _Mosquitoes_ (1927)
- _Sartoris/Flags in the Dust_ (1929/1973)
- _The Sound and the Fury_ (1929)
- _As I Lay Dying_ (1930)
- _Sanctuary_ (1931)
- _Light in August_ (1932)
- _Pylon_ (1935)
- _Absalom, Absalom!_ (1936)
- _The Unvanquished_ (1938)
- _If I Forget Thee Jerusalem (The Wild Palms/Old Man)_ (1939)
- _The Hamlet_ (1940)
- _Go Down, Moses_ (1942). Episodic novel made up of rewritten previous published short stories.
- _Intruder in the Dust_ (1948)
- _Requiem for a Nun_ (1951)
- _A Fable_ (1954)
- _The Town_ (1957)
- _The Mansion_ (1959)
- _The Reivers_ (1962)

### Short stories

- "Landing in Luck" (1919)
- "The Hill" (1922)
- "New Orleans"
- "Mirrors of Chartres Street" (1925)
- "Damon and Pythias Unlimited" (1925)
- "Jealousy" (1925)
- "Cheest" (1925)
- "Out of Nazareth" (1925)
- "The Kingdom of God" (1925)
- "The Rosary" (1925)
- "The Cobbler" (1925)
- "Chance" (1925)
- "Sunset" (1925)
- "The Kid Learns" (1925)
- "The Liar" (1925)
- "Home" (1925)
- "Episode" (1925)
- "Country Mice" (1925)
- "Yo Ho and Two Bottles of Rum" (1925)
- "Music - Sweeter than the Angels Sing"
- "A Rose for Emily" (1930)
- "Honor" (1930)
- "Thrift" (1930)
- "Red Leaves" (1930)
- "Ad Astra" (1931)
- "Dry September" (1931)
- "That Evening Sun" (1931)
- "Hair" (1931)
- "Spotted Horses" (1931)
- "The Hound" (1931)
- "Fox Hunt" (1931)
- "Carcassonne" (1931)
- "Divorce in Naples" (1931)
- "Victory" (1931)
- "All the Dead Pilots" (1931)
- "Crevasse" (1931)
- "Mistral" (1931)
- "A Justice" (1931)
- "Dr. Martino" (1931)
- "Idyll in the Desert" (1931)

- "Miss Zilphia Grant" (1932)
- "Death Drag" (1932)
- "Centaur in Brass" (1932)
- "Once Aboard the Lugger (I)" (1932)
- "Lizards in Jamshyd's Courtyard" (1932)
- "Turnabout" (1932)
- "Smoke" (1932)
- "Mountain Victory" (1932)
- "There Was a Queen" (1933)
- "Artist at Home" (1933)
- "Beyond" (1933)
- "Elly" (1934)
- "Pennsylvania Station" (1934)
- "Wash" (1934)
- "A Bear Hunt" (1934)
- "The Leg" (1934)
- "Black Music" (1934)
- "Mule in the Yard" (1934)
- "Ambuscade" (1934)
- "Retreat" (1934)
- "Lo!" (1934)
- "Raid" (1934)
- "Skirmish at Sartoris" (1935)
- "Golden Land" (1935)
- "That Will Be Fine" (1935)
- "Uncle Willy" (1935)
- "Lion" (1935)
- "The Brooch" (1936)
- "Two Dollar Wife" (1936)
- "Fool About a Horse" (1936)
- "Vendee" (1936)
- "Monk" (1937)
- "Barn Burning" (1939)
- "Hand Upon the Waters" (1939)
- "A Point of Law" (1940)
- "The Old People" (1940)
- "Pantaloon in Black" (1940)
- "Gold Is Not Always" (1940)
- "Tomorrow" (1940). Filmed in 1972, starring Robert Duvall.
- "The Tall Men" (1941)
- "Two Soldiers" (1942)
- "Delta Autumn" (1942)
- "The Bear" (1942)

- "Afternoon of a Cow" (1943)
- "Shingles for the Lord" (1943)
- "My Grandmother Millard and General Bedford Forrest and the Battle of Harrykin Creek" (1943)
- "Shall Not Perish" (1943)
- "Appendix, Compson, 1699-1945" (1946)
- "An Error in Chemistry" (1946)
- "A Courtship" (1948)
- "Knight's Gambit" (1949)
- "Nobel Prize Award Speech" (1949)
- "A Name for the City" (1950)
- "Notes on a Horsethief" (1951)
- "Mississippi" (1954)
- "Sepulture South: Gaslight" (1954)
- "Race at Morning" (1955)
- "By the People" (1955)
- "Hell Creek Crossing" (1962)
- "Mr. Acarius" (1965)
- "The Wishing Tree" (1967)
- "Al Jackson" (1971)
- "And Now What's To Do" (1973)
- "Nympholepsy" (1973)
- "The Priest" (1976)
- "Mayday" (1977)
- "Frankie and Johnny" (1978)
- "Don Giovanni" (1979)
- "Peter" (1979)
- "A Portrait of Elmer" (1979)
- "Adolescence" (1979)
- "Snow" (1979)
- "Moonlight" (1979)
- "With Caution and Dispatch" (1979)
- "Hog Pawn" (1979)
- "A Dangerous Man" (1979)
- "A Return" (1979)
- "The Big Shot" (1979)
- "Once Aboard the Lugger (II)" (1979)
- "Dull Tale" (1979)
- "Evangeline" (1979)
- "Love" (1988)
- "Christmas Tree" (1995)
- "Rose of Lebanon" (1995)
- "Lucas Beauchamp" (1999)

### Poetry

- _Vision in Spring_ (1921)
- _The Marble Faun_ (1924)
- _A Green Bough_ (1933)
- _This Earth, a Poem_ (1932)
- _Mississippi Poems_ (1979)
- _Helen, a Courtship and Mississippi Poems_ (1981).

## Infobox (writer)

- **name**: William Faulkner
- **image**: Carl Van Vechten - William Faulkner.jpg
- **imagesize**: 200px
- **caption**: Faulkner in 1954, photograph by Carl Van Vechten
- **birth name**: William Cuthbert Falkner
- **birth place**: New Albany, Mississippi
- **death place**: Byhalia, Mississippi
- **occupation**: novelist, short story writer
- **genre**: Southern Gothic
- **movement**: Modernist literature, Modernism, Stream of consciousness writing, Stream of consciousness
- **awards**: Nobel Prize in Literature 1949