William Faulkner (1897–1962)
Auteur van Het geraas en gebral
Over de Auteur
Born in an old Mississippi family, William Faulkner made his home in Oxford, seat of the University of Mississippi. After the fifth grade he went to school only off and on-lived, read, and wrote much as he pleased. In 1918, refusing to enlist with the "Yankees," he joined the Canadian Air Force, toon meer and was transferred to the British Royal Air Force. After the war he studied a little at the University, did house painting, worked as a night superintendent at a power plant, went to New Orleans and became a friend of Sherwood Anderson, then to Europe and back home to Oxford. By this time he had written two novels. The Sound and the Fury followed in 1929. Financial success came with Sanctuary in 1931, which he assisted in filming. Faulkner 's novels are intense in their character portrayals of disintegrating Southern aristocrats, poor whites, and African Americans. A complex stream-of-consciousness rhetoric often involves Faulkner in lengthy sentences of anguished power. Most of his tales are set in the mythical Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, and are characterized by the use of many recurring characters from families of different social levels spanning more than a century. His best subjects are the old, dying South and the newer materialistic South. As I Lay Dying (1930), is a grotesquely tragicomic story about a family of poor southern whites. With Absalom, Absalom! (1936); the difficult parts of his famous short novel "The Bear" (published in Go Down, Moses, 1942); and the allegorical A Fable (1954), a non-Yoknapatawpha novel set in France during World War I; Faulkner returned to an innovative and difficult style that most readers have trouble with. Yet, interspersed among such works are collections of easily read stories originally published in popular magazines. There seems to be a growing sentiment among critics that the Snopes trilogy-The Hamlet (1940), The Town (1957), and The Mansion (1959)-for the most part an example of Faulkner's "moderate" style, could well be among his most important works. Faulkner was awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize for literature "for his powerful and artistically independent contribution to the new American novel," but it would appear now that he also deserved to win that honor for his contribution to world literature. When reporting his death, the Boston Globe quoted Faulkner's having once told an interviewer: "Since man is mortal, the only immortality for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. That is the artist's way of scribbling "Kilroy was here" on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must some day pass." In addition to the Nobel Prize, Faulkner received the Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1950, and in 1951 he was given the National Book Award for his Collected Stories Collected Stories. For his novel A Fable he received the National Book Award for the second time, as well as the Pulitzer Prize in 1955. The Reivers (1962) was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1963. In 1957 and 1958, he was the University of Virginia's first writer-in-residence, and in January 1959 he accepted an appointment as consultant on contemporary literature to the Alderman Library of that university. Although Faulkner was not without honors in his lifetime and has received world recognition since then, it is surprising to learn that, when Malcolm Cowley edited The Portable Faulkner in 1946, he found that almost all of Faulkner's books were out of print. By arranging selections from the works to form a continuous chronicle, Cowley deserves much of the credit for making readers aware of the way in which Faulkner was creating a fictive world on a scale grander than that of any novelist since Balzac. William Faulkner died in Oxford, Mississippi, in 1962. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
Ontwarringsbericht:
(eng) This is not the same person as William Falkner (d. 1682), English theologian. Do not combine the two.
Fotografie: Photo by Carl van Vechten
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
(LoC Prints and Photographs Division,
Van Vechten Collection)
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Novels 1936-1940 : Absalom, Absalom! / The Unvanquished / If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem / The Hamlet (1990) 586 exemplaren
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Thinking of Home: William Faulkner's Letters to His Mother and Father, 1918-1925 (1992) 34 exemplaren
William Faulkner: Stories (LOA #375): Knight's Gambit / Collected Stories / Big Woods / Other Works (Library of… (1940) 32 exemplaren
Ghosts of Rowan Oak: William Faulkner's Ghost Stories for Children (1980) — Medewerker — 30 exemplaren
Dry September 23 exemplaren
A Fable: William Faulkner Manuscripts 20, Volume I: Miscellaneous Manuscript & Typescript Pages, Part 1 (1987) 12 exemplaren
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William Faulkner Novels: 1936-1940 8 exemplaren
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As I Lay Dying: The Corrected Text 8 exemplaren
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Red Leaves {story} — Auteur — 5 exemplaren
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Hell Creek Crossing 4 exemplaren
A Justice 4 exemplaren
The Modern Library 4 exemplaren
The Saint Magazine Reader 4 exemplaren
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Best-in-Books: Grand Hotel / Voice of Bugle Ann / Life with Father / Mutiny on the Bounty / Postman Always Rings Twice (1962) — Medewerker — 3 exemplaren
A Bear Hunt 3 exemplaren
Centaur in Brass 3 exemplaren
That Will Be Fine 3 exemplaren
A Courtship 3 exemplaren
Father Abraham Tree: William Faulkner Manuscripts II: Holograph Manuscript and Typescripts; and, The Wishing Tree:… (1987) 3 exemplaren
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William Faulkner Reads: The Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech and Selections from As I Lay Dying, A Fable, and The Old Man (1992) 3 exemplaren
The Broach 3 exemplaren
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William Faulkner Reads: The Old Man and More 2 exemplaren
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The Reivers: William Faulkner Manuscripts 23, Volume II: Typescript Setting Copy (1986) 2 exemplaren
Nobel Prize Library Hemingway Hamsun Hesse 2 exemplaren
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The Hill 2 exemplaren
As I Lay Dying (Vintage books) (Paperback) - Common 2 exemplaren
Correspondance Malcolm Cowley-William Faulkner.Lettres et souvenirs de 1944 à 1962 commentés par M.Cowley traduit de… (1970) 2 exemplaren
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I fantasmi di Rowan Oak. Storie di sogno e di paura scritte e raccontate da William Faulkner (2005) 2 exemplaren
The Reivers, 1962 (William Faulkner Manuscripts) 2 exemplaren
Requiem for a Nun: William Faulkner Manuscripts 19, Volume IV: Playscript Materials (1987) 2 exemplaren
Shall Not Perish 2 exemplaren
Death Drag 2 exemplaren
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The Leg 2 exemplaren
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The Tall Men 2 exemplaren
Beyond 2 exemplaren
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William FAULKNER / The Town 1957 1 exemplaar
William Faulkner Manuscripts 25: Typescripts and Manuscripts "Unpublished" stories (1987) 1 exemplaar
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Sartoris / The Bear / Intruder in the Dust — Auteur — 1 exemplaar
TYMI 1 exemplaar
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Snobovi 1 exemplaar
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Sports Illustrated, Volume 2 Number 4 1 exemplaar
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Extrait - L'Intrus 1 exemplaar
El ruido y la furia Mientras agonizo 1 exemplaar
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2 Volumes of William Faulkner Books: 1) Light in August 2) The Sound and The Fury (1969) 1 exemplaar
Collected Storeies Vol. II 1 exemplaar
Rose of Lebanon 1 exemplaar
Erzählungen II 1 exemplaar
Elmer; and, "A Portrait of Elmer": William Faulker Manuscripts I: The Typescripts, Manuscripts, and Miscellaneous Pages (1987) 1 exemplaar
A Fable (William Faulkner Manuscripts 20, Volume 2: Miscellaneous Manuscript & Typescript Pages Part 2) 1 exemplaar
Requiem for a Nun: William Faulkner Manuscripts 19, Volume III: Typescript Setting Copy (1987) 1 exemplaar
William Faulkner Manuscripts 19, Volumes I, II, and III: Requiem for a Nun: Preliminary Holograph and Typescript… (1987) 1 exemplaar
Obras escogidas TOMO II: Una fabula-El ruido y la furia-Santuario-Absalom,absalom-novelas cortas (1960) 1 exemplaar
Larmen Og Vreden 1 exemplaar
Amerikaanse verhalen — Medewerker — 1 exemplaar
Tomorrow & Tomorrow & Tomorrow 1 exemplaar
Obras Completas III 1 exemplaar
Monk [short story] 1 exemplaar
Absalom, Absalom! Griff in den Staub. Der Bär. Die Spitzbuben. Eine Legende. Sartoris. Dürrer September. Als… (1963) 1 exemplaar
A Cosmos of My Own 1 exemplaar
The Road to Glory 1 exemplaar
A Guest's Impression of New England 1 exemplaar
Country Lawyer 1 exemplaar
The Story of My Life 1 exemplaar
"Hair" 1 exemplaar
Palmeiras Bravas | Rio Velho Edição 80 anos 1 exemplaar
Fumo 1 exemplaar
Zascianek 1 exemplaar
O Homem e o Rio Livro 1 1 exemplaar
Ensaios, Discursos e Cartas Públicas 1 exemplaar
Delta Autumn 1 exemplaar
Smasogur 1 exemplaar
Byn roman 1 exemplaar
Khi tôi nằm chết 1 exemplaar
Pylon: William Faulkner Manuscripts 12: Typescript Setting Copy and Miscellaneous Holograph Pages (1987) 1 exemplaar
Collected Stories Volume I 1 exemplaar
Obras Completas VI 1 exemplaar
DIVLJE PALME - STARAC 1 exemplaar
“The Tall Men” 1 exemplaar
"A Bear Hunt" 1 exemplaar
"Shall Not Perish" 1 exemplaar
Rare Light in August, William Faulkner, Tale Mississippi, Modern Library 1950 HC-DJ (1950) 1 exemplaar
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Pennsylvania Station 1 exemplaar
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Pobertové : reminiscence 1 exemplaar
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2003 1 exemplaar
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- Gangbare naam
- Faulkner, William
- Officiële naam
- Faulkner, William Cuthbert
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Faulkner, Will
- Geboortedatum
- 1897-09-25
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1962-07-06
- Graflocatie
- St. Peter's Cemetery, Oxford, Mississippi, USA
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- New Albany, Mississippi, USA
- Plaats van overlijden
- Byhalia, Mississippi, USA
- Oorzaak van overlijden
- suffered a serious injury in a fall from his horse, which led to thrombosis
- Woonplaatsen
- Oxford, Mississippi, USA
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA - Opleiding
- University of Mississippi
- Beroepen
- novelist
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pilot - Relaties
- Faulkner, John (brother)
Falkner, Murry C. (brother)
Faulkner, Jim (nephew)
Falkner, William Clark (great-grandfather)
Percy, William Alexander (friend)
Anderson, Sherwood (friend) (toon alle 9)
West, Nathanael (friend)
Franklin, Malcolm A. (stepson)
Wells, Dean Faulkner (niece) - Organisaties
- British Armed Forces
American Academy of Arts and Letters
Sigma Alpha Epsilon
University of Mississippi (postmaster)
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (screenwriter)
Warner Brothers (screenwriter) (toon alle 8)
University of Virginia (writer-in-residence)
National Institute of Arts and Letters - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Nobel Prize (Literature, 1949)
National Institute of Arts and Letters (1939)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (1948)
William Dean Howells Medal (1950)
Chevalier de la Legion d'honneur (1951)
Silver Medal of the Greek Academy (1957) (toon alle 8)
National Institute of Arts and Letters Gold Medal (1962)
Created the PEN/Faulkner Award - Korte biografie
- William Cuthbert Faulkner (September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer and Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner wrote novels, short stories, screenplays, poetry, essays, and a play. He is primarily known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where he spent most of his life.
Faulkner is one of the most celebrated writers in American literature generally and Southern literature specifically. Though his work was published as early as 1919 and largely during the 1920s and 1930s, Faulkner's renown reached its peak upon the publication of Malcolm Cowley's The Portable Faulkner and his 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the only Mississippi-born Nobel winner. Two of his works, A Fable (1954) and his last novel The Reivers (1962), each won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked his 1929 novel The Sound and the Fury sixth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century; also on the list were As I Lay Dying (1930) and Light in August (1932). Absalom, Absalom! (1936) appears on similar lists. - Ontwarringsbericht
- This is not the same person as William Falkner (d. 1682), English theologian. Do not combine the two.
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