William Faulkner

William Faulkner

Author 106 / Writer 20 · 1915 – 2016 · 🎬 20 📖 106

William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer. He is best known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, a stand-in for Lafayette County where he spent most of his life. Winner of the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature, Faulkner is one of the most celebrated writers of American literature, often considered the greatest writer of Southern literature and regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century.

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Highlights

The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature--Eighth Edition

The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature--Eighth Edition

2009

My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead

My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead

2008

The Harbrace Anthology of Short Fiction -- Fourth Edition

The Harbrace Anthology of Short Fiction -- Fourth Edition

2008

Frequent Collaborators

Edgar Allan Poe

49 shared

Nathaniel Hawthorne

43 shared

Herman Melville

32 shared

Ambrose Bierce

30 shared

James Joyce

26 shared

John Steinbeck

26 shared

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📖 Books

The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature--Eighth Edition

The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature--Eighth Edition

author

2009

My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead

My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead

author

2008

The Harbrace Anthology of Short Fiction -- Fourth Edition

The Harbrace Anthology of Short Fiction -- Fourth Edition

author

2008

Fiction, A Pocket Anthology--Fifth Edition

Fiction, A Pocket Anthology--Fifth Edition

author

2007

American 24-Karat Gold

American 24-Karat Gold

author

2006

The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction -- Shorter Seventh Edition

The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction -- Shorter Seventh Edition

author

2006

Literature, The Human Experience, Reading and Writing--Shorter Ninth Edition

Literature, The Human Experience, Reading and Writing--Shorter Ninth Edition

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2003

The Bedford Introduction to Literature--Reading, Thinking, Writing--Sixth Edition

The Bedford Introduction to Literature--Reading, Thinking, Writing--Sixth Edition

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2002

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