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William Faulkner


Born
in New Albany, Mississippi, The United States
September 25, 1897

Died
July 06, 1962

Genre
Fiction, Poetry, Southern Gothic

Influences
Mark Twain, James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, William Shakespeare, Balzac, Thom ...more


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. A Nobel laureate, Faulkner is one of the most celebrated writers of American literature and often is considered the greatest writer of Southern literature.
Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi, and raised in Oxford, Mississippi. During World War I, he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force, but did not serve in combat. Returning to Oxford, he attended the University of Mississippi for three semesters before dropping out. He moved to New Orleans, where he wrote his first novel Soldiers' Pay (1925). He went back to Oxford ...more

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Average rating: 3.84 · 628,035 ratings · 39,555 reviews · 1,067 distinct works â€� Similar authors
The Sound and the Fury
3.86 avg rating — 190,090 ratings — published 1929 — 24 editions
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As I Lay Dying
3.72 avg rating — 179,367 ratings — published 1930 — 10 editions
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3.94 avg rating — 64,626 ratings — published 1932 — 10 editions
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Absalom, Absalom!
3.98 avg rating — 46,512 ratings — published 1936 — 11 editions
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A Rose for Emily and Other ...
4.06 avg rating — 26,074 ratings — published 1930 — 65 editions
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Sanctuary
3.63 avg rating — 14,281 ratings — published 1931 — 14 editions
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A Rose for Emily
3.82 avg rating — 12,815 ratings — published 1930 — 3 editions
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Go Down, Moses
3.93 avg rating — 10,374 ratings — published 1942 — 8 editions
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Collected Stories
4.24 avg rating — 7,801 ratings — published 1950 — 128 editions
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The Reivers
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“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
― William Faulkner
tags: reading, writing
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“You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.”
― William Faulkner
tags: courage, determination, hope, risk
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“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
― William Faulkner
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February 2017 Short Story Poll

An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde, 78 pages, 1893
 
  74 votes, 30.6%

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson, 30 pages, 1948
 
  62 votes, 25.6%

A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen, 122 pages, 1879
 
  47 votes, 19.4%

 
  18 votes, 7.4%

Barn Burning by William Faulkner, 47 pages, 1939
 
  14 votes, 5.8%

 
  13 votes, 5.4%

First Love by Ivan Turgenev, 124 pages, 1856
 
  10 votes, 4.1%

The Magic Barrel by Bernard Malamud, 39 pages, 1950
 
  4 votes, 1.7%

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