1897-1962. US novelist who wrote in an
experimental stream-of-consciousness style.
His works include The Sound and the Fury
1929, dealing with a Southern US family in
decline; As I Lay Dying 1930; Light in August
1932, a study of segregation; The
Unvanquished 1938, stories of the Civil War;
and The Hamlet 1940, The Town 1957, and The
Mansion 1959, a trilogy covering the rise of
the materialist Snopes family. He was awarded
the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949.
Faulkner served in World War I and his first
novel, Soldier's Pay 1929, is about a war
veteran. After the war he returned to Oxford,
Mississippi, on which he was to model the
town of Jefferson in the county of
Yoknapatawpha, the setting of his major
novels.