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William Faulkner
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 an…
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culture · American writer and novelist (1897–1962) · screenwriter · poet · novelist · short story writer · playwright · children's writer · writer · also William Faulkner, William Cuthbert Faulkner, William Cuthbert Falkner, William Falkner, Faulkner
Born 25 September 1897 · Died 6 July 1962 · Q38392
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2026· 7 entries
“Mr. Cerf, when I get a letter from you, I open it and shake it and if a check doesn”
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“the books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return as you do to old friends: the Old Testament, Dickens, Conrad, Cervantes, Don Quixote—I read that every year, as some do the Bible. Flaubert, Balzac—he created an intact world of his own, a bloodstream running through twenty books—Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Shakespeare. I read Melville occasionally and, of the poets, Marlowe, Campion, Jonson, Herrick, Donne, Keats, and Shelley.”
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“One day I seemed to shut the door between me and all publisher”
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“Pay, in New Orleans. Anderson helped secure its publication, as well as that of Mosquitoes, by recommending both works to his publisher. These and Faulkner”
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Lincoln Parish Journal: Who is William Faulkner? Meet Ruston’s newest mayoral candidate
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Indiatimes: Quote of the Day by William Faulkner, “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have.."
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2024· 1 entry
Arizona Daily Sun: WILLIAM FAULKNER: EXPERIMENTAL NARRATIVE TECHNIQUE
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2019· 1 entry
A Mississippi Writers Trail historical marker was installed at Rowan Oak in Oxford, Mississippi, honoring the contributions of William Faulkner to the American literary landscape
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2016· 1 entry
The Guardian: Interview with a bookstore: Square Books, in William Faulkner's hometown
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2015· 1 entry
The Guardian: Lost William Faulkner play published for first time
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2013· 1 entry
Wall Street Journal: William Faulkner's Heirs Aim to Preserve His Legacy and Profit From It
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1981· 1 entry
This became the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction, founded by, among others, Mary Lee Settle as an alternative to the National Book Award
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1973· 1 entry
Also restored Faulkner's original title, Flags in the Dust
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1966· 1 entry
The United States Military Academy dedicated a William Faulkner Room in its library
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1963· 1 entry
Awarded Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Reivers (1963).
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1962· 18 entries
Following a fall from his horse the month before
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At the age of 64, at Wright's Sanatorium in Byhalia, Mississippi
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Died 1962-07-06.
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Faulkner suffered a serious injury in a fall from his horse, which led to thrombosis
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“Man performs, engenders, so much more than he can or should have to bear. That’s how he finds that he can bear anything. (ang.)”
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“Civilization," mused Bill once, "started with distillation.”
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“There is no such thing," meditated Bill, "as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damnfool if he doesn't.”
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“Well, between Scotch and nothin', I suppose I'd take Scotch. It's the nearest thing to good moonshine I can find.”
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“It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That’s how the world is going to end. (ang.)”
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“There is something about jumping a horse over a fence, something that makes you feel good. Perhaps it's the risk, the gamble. In any event it's a thing I need.”
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“Pamiętam, że w młodości myślałem, że śmierć to zjawisko cielesne. Teraz wiem, że to tylko funkcja umysłu – i to umysłu tego, kto pozostaje po zmarłym przy życiu. Nihiliści mówią, że to jest koniec. Fundamentaliści, że początek, a w rzeczywistości to tylko wyprowadzka lokatora czy całej rodziny z jakiegoś domu albo miasta.”
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“Perhaps they were right in putting love into books (…). Perhaps it could not live anywhere else. (ang.)”
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“I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.”
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“When he went to bed that night his mind was made up to run away. He felt like an eagle: hard, sufficient, potent, remorseless, strong. But that passed, though he did not then know that, like the eagle, his own flesh as well as all space was still a cage. (ang.)”
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“A man is the sum of his misfortunes. (ang.)”
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“Czas gmatwał im rachunki, jak to bywa u starych, dla których cała przeszłość nie jest zwężającą się drogą, lecz ogromną, nie tkniętą właściwie przez żadną zimę łąką, od której dzieli ich tylko przesmyk ostatniego dziesięciolecia…”
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“Love and suffering are the same thing and that the value of love is the sum of what you have to pay for it and anytime you get it cheap you have cheated. (ang.)”
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“Zabić można tylko ciało człowieka. Nie można zabić jego głosu.”
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1961· 1 entry
Faulkner began writing his nineteenth and final novel, The Reivers
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1956· 2 entries
Faulkner remarked: Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique
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Argued against school segregation in Harper's Magazine
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1955· 2 entries
Awarded Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for A Fable (1955).
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Awarded National Book Award for A Fable (1955).
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1954· 1 entry
“s novel To Have and Have Not. The film was the first starring Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart. Bogart and Bacall would star in Hawks”
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1951· 2 entries
Awarded National Book Award for Collected Stories of William Faulkner (1951).
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Faulkner received the Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur medal from the government of France
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1950· 2 entries
Won William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters (1950).
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Publisher Tor Bonnier introduced Else as the widow of the man responsible for Faulkner winning the Nobel Prize
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1949· 2 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature — for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature (1949).
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1946· 2 entries
Most of his novels had been out of print
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And introduced his works to Swedish readers
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1943· 2 entries
Faulkner began work on a new novel that merged World War I's Unknown Soldier with the Passion of Christ
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While working at Warner Brothers, Faulkner wrote a letter of encouragement to a young Mississippi writer, Eudora Welty
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1942· 1 entry
Faulkner tried to join the United States Air Force but was rejected
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1939· 1 entry
Awarded O. Henry Award (1939).
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1931· 1 entry
Faulkner's first child, a girl they named Alabama, was born but died nine days later
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1930· 1 entry
Faulkner sent some of his short stories to various national magazines
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1929· 2 entries
While working night shifts at the University of Mississippi Power House
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Faulkner married Estelle Oldham, with Andrew Kuhn serving as best man at the wedding
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1922· 1 entry
His poem "Portrait" was published in the New Orleans literary magazine Double Dealer
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1921· 1 entry
Studied at University of Mississippi, Master of Science (1919–1921).
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1919· 2 entries
Was discharged as a Private (II Class) due to the end of the War, having served 179 days
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Studying for three semesters before dropping out in November 1920
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1918· 2 entries
Cornell Franklin (five years Faulkner's senior) proposed marriage to her before Faulkner did
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Faulkner's surname changed from "Falkner" to "Faulkner"
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1902· 1 entry
Where Faulkner's father established a livery stable and hardware store before becoming the University of Mississippi's business manager
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1897· 2 entries
In New Albany, Mississippi, the first of four sons of Murry Cuthbert Falkner and Maud Butler
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Born 1897-09-25.
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