Who is William Faulkner?
• From William Faulkner on the Web via Internet Public Library: • Biography • Chronology of Faulkner’s Life, • Faulkner Family Tree • William Faulkner: Nobel Prize Speech via Internet Public Library • Faulkner Biography at the Mississippi Writers Page via Internet Public Library • Faulkner Image Gallery at the Mississippi Writers Page has several interesting and useful images, including: • The Yocona River Bridge in the Early 1900s http://www.olemiss.edu/mwp/dir/faulkner_william/yocona.html • Brief Faulkner biography via American Memory • The South: What is it, Where is it?, excerpted from John Shelton Reed’s My Tears Spoiled My Aim and available via EDSITEment reviewed American Studies at the University of Virginia, might be a good way for students to examine the multiple perspectives of the South. The article is lengthy, and uses statistics ranging from the 1920s to the 1980s, so teacher guidance is advised. • Teachers might want to include some of the sections of Literature in the A
William Faulkner is an American fiction writer whose work is deeply rooted in the Southern United States, particularly in his home state of Mississippi. William Faulkner, who lived from 1897 to 1962, had a unique, stream-of-consciousness writing style and was far more experimental with his texts than many of his fellow writers were. Though relatively unknown for much of his career, Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949. Today, William Faulkner is considered to be one of America’s greatest Southern writers, along with Mark Twain. During his lifetime, William Faulkner had a prolific career, writing a wide range of books, stories, and poems; he also worked as a Hollywood screenwriter during the 1930s, and wrote the screenplay for Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep, among others. Some of William Faulkner’s best known works include the novels Light In August, As I Lay Dying, and The Sound and the Fury, along with the short story, A Rose for Emily. Many of William Faulkne
