William Faulkner

William Faulkner was an American writer of the mid-20th century. His most notable works are the novels The Sound and the Fury, published in 1929 and As I Lay Dying, published in 1930. He is one of the most important Southern American writers and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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• Lifetime: 25 September 1897 • 6 July 1962
• Main genre: Southern literature
• Literary movement: Modernism
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"The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself"