Afbeelding van de auteur.

William Faulkner (1897–1962)

Auteur van Het geraas en gebral

430+ Werken 86,401 Leden 1,075 Besprekingen Favoriet van 494 leden
There are 5 open discussions about this author. See now.

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)

Reeksen

Werken van William Faulkner

Het geraas en gebral (1929) 17,167 exemplaren
Terwijl ik al heenging (1930) 14,693 exemplaren
Licht in augustus (1932) 9,172 exemplaren
Absalom, Absalom! (1936) 7,620 exemplaren
Het gangstermeisje Temple Drake (1931) 3,711 exemplaren
Go Down, Moses (1942) 3,296 exemplaren
De rovers (1962) 2,278 exemplaren
Ongenode gast (1948) 2,066 exemplaren
Onverslagen (1938) — Auteur — 1,945 exemplaren
Collected Stories of William Faulkner (1950) 1,895 exemplaren
Het gehucht (1940) 1,807 exemplaren
The Wild Palms (1939) 1,289 exemplaren
A Fable (1954) 849 exemplaren
The Mansion (1959) — Auteur — 712 exemplaren
Het stadje (1957) — Auteur — 709 exemplaren
Soldiers' Pay (1926) 691 exemplaren
Requiem for a Nun (1951) 639 exemplaren
Sartoris (1929) 616 exemplaren
Mosquitoes (1927) 539 exemplaren
Pylon (1935) 508 exemplaren
As I Lay Dying / The Sound and the Fury / Light in August (2005) — Auteur — 500 exemplaren
Knight's Gambit (1949) 461 exemplaren
Flags in the Dust (1929) — Auteur — 423 exemplaren
Novels, 1957-1962: The Town / The Mansion / The Reivers (1999) — Auteur — 372 exemplaren
The Portable Faulkner (1946) — Auteur — 275 exemplaren
New Orleans Sketches (1957) 210 exemplaren
Big Woods: The Hunting Stories (1955) 199 exemplaren
A Rose for Emily {Tale Blazers} (2007) 169 exemplaren
The wishing tree (1927) 155 exemplaren
De beer (1942) 126 exemplaren
Sanctuary and Requiem for a Nun (1951) — Auteur — 125 exemplaren
These Thirteen (1931) 72 exemplaren
The Old Man (1948) 67 exemplaren
Barn Burning (1979) 60 exemplaren
The Long, Hot Summer [1958 film] (2004) — Auteur — 48 exemplaren
A Rose for Emily {story} (1945) 44 exemplaren
Vision in Spring (1984) 39 exemplaren
Smoke [short story] (1993) 37 exemplaren
Mayday (1974) 36 exemplaren
The Wild Palms [and] The Old Man (1939) 34 exemplaren
The Marble Faun and A Green Bough (1960) 32 exemplaren
Father Abraham (1983) 31 exemplaren
Doctor Martino and Other Stories (1934) 30 exemplaren
A Rose for Emily {book} (1996) 26 exemplaren
21 Essential American Short Stories (2011) — Medewerker — 24 exemplaren
Brer Tiger and the Big Wind (1995) 23 exemplaren
Dry September 23 exemplaren
Faulkner : Oeuvres romanesques, tome 1 (1977) — Auteur — 23 exemplaren
Essays, Speeches & Public Letters {1965} (1605) — Auteur — 21 exemplaren
The Long Hot Summer (1958) 20 exemplaren
Uncle Willy and other stories (1958) 19 exemplaren
The Essential Faulkner (1967) — Auteur — 16 exemplaren
A Green Bough (1933) 15 exemplaren
Una rosa per Emily (1997) — Auteur — 15 exemplaren
Barn Burning {story} (1997) — Auteur — 14 exemplaren
The William Faulkner Audio Collection (2003) — Auteur — 14 exemplaren
Eine Rose für Emily (1930) 13 exemplaren
The Indispensable Faulkner (1946) 13 exemplaren
That Evening Sun {story} (1931) 12 exemplaren
All the Dead Pilots (2002) 12 exemplaren
Two Soldiers (1983) 11 exemplaren
Stories from six authors (1960) — Medewerker — 11 exemplaren
Barn Burning and Other Stories (1971) — Auteur — 11 exemplaren
Miss Zilphia Gant (1980) 11 exemplaren
Faulkner : Oeuvres romanesques, tome 2 (2016) — Auteur — 11 exemplaren
Noveller (1992) 11 exemplaren
The Best of Faulkner (1955) 10 exemplaren
The Marionettes (1975) 10 exemplaren
Red Leaves: Stories (1972) — Auteur — 10 exemplaren
Land of the Pharaohs [1955 film] (1955) — Screenwriter — 9 exemplaren
Meistererzählungen (1970) 9 exemplaren
Faulkner's Mgm Screenplays (1982) 9 exemplaren
Turnabout (1932) 8 exemplaren
Sanctuary / Light in August (1978) — Auteur — 8 exemplaren
Lo! 8 exemplaren
Privacy (2003) 8 exemplaren
Schwarze Musik. (1994) 8 exemplaren
Obras completas (1959) 8 exemplaren
As I Lay Dying [2013 film] (2013) — Auteur — 7 exemplaren
Le Caïd : Et autres nouvelles (2005) 7 exemplaren
Spotted Horses (1989) 7 exemplaren
Wash (2012) 7 exemplaren
Über William Faulkner (Nr.54) (1973) 7 exemplaren
Faulkner : Oeuvres romanesques, tome 3 (1977) — Auteur — 7 exemplaren
Obras Completas 1 (2004) 6 exemplaren
A FAULKNER PERSPECTIVE (1976) 6 exemplaren
Mountain Victory (2002) 6 exemplaren
Karhu ja muita novelleja (1969) 6 exemplaren
William Faulkner Reads (1998) 6 exemplaren
Red Leaves {story} — Auteur — 5 exemplaren
Shimgles for the Lord 5 exemplaren
Faulkner at Nagano (1956) 5 exemplaren
A Rose for Emily and Wash (1984) — Auteur — 5 exemplaren
Obras Escogidas 5 exemplaren
Faulkner : Oeuvres romanesques, tome 4 (1977) — Auteur — 5 exemplaren
Douglas Sirk: Filmmaker Collection [videorecording] (2018) — Screenwriter — 5 exemplaren
romanzi (1995) 5 exemplaren
Idyll In The Desert (1985) 5 exemplaren
Kurtar Halkimi Musa (2015) 4 exemplaren
The Modern Library 4 exemplaren
Hell Creek Crossing 4 exemplaren
Ümberpöörd : [novellid] (1965) 4 exemplaren
Ad Astra (2006) 4 exemplaren
Nouvelles (2017) 4 exemplaren
Obras Completas V (2005) 4 exemplaren
Cartas escogidas (1983) 4 exemplaren
A Justice 4 exemplaren
Mississippi Poems (1979) 3 exemplaren
Yenilmeyenler (2018) 3 exemplaren
Contes 3 exemplaren
CUENTOS REUNIDOS (2013) 3 exemplaren
Strange Love (1963) 3 exemplaren
Obras Completas VII (2005) 3 exemplaren
Opere scelte vol. 2 (2004) 3 exemplaren
Mule in the Yard 3 exemplaren
Honor 3 exemplaren
A Courtship 3 exemplaren
Stary 3 exemplaren
Mirrors of Chartres Street (1925) 3 exemplaren
That Will Be Fine 3 exemplaren
A Bear Hunt 3 exemplaren
The Broach 3 exemplaren
Centaur in Brass 3 exemplaren
Elly 3 exemplaren
Untitled 2 exemplaren
Foglie rosse e altri racconti (2014) 2 exemplaren
Faulkner 2 exemplaren
Opere scelte (2004) 2 exemplaren
I negri e gli indiani 2 exemplaren
Mississippi (2000) 2 exemplaren
Obras completas VI (2004) 2 exemplaren
Hair (1968) 2 exemplaren
The Hill 2 exemplaren
Evangeline (1998) — Auteur — 2 exemplaren
Tomorrow 2 exemplaren
Divorce in Naples 2 exemplaren
Mistral 2 exemplaren
The Leg 2 exemplaren
There Was a Queen 2 exemplaren
Salmagundi 2 exemplaren
Golden Land 2 exemplaren
Ensayos Y Discursos (2012) 2 exemplaren
Faulkner's County: Tales of Yoknapatawpha County (1955) — Auteur — 2 exemplaren
Crevasse 2 exemplaren
A Aldeia (2015) 2 exemplaren
Koy (2018) 2 exemplaren
The Tall Men 2 exemplaren
Stallion Road: A Screenplay (1989) 2 exemplaren
Het vuur en de haard 2 exemplaren
A Mansão (Portuguese Edition) (2016) 2 exemplaren
Fox Hunt 2 exemplaren
Faulkner op West Point (1990) 2 exemplaren
Victory 2 exemplaren
Carcassonne — Auteur — 2 exemplaren
Beyond 2 exemplaren
Death Drag 2 exemplaren
Shall Not Perish 2 exemplaren
Artist at Home 2 exemplaren
Smásögur 1 exemplaar
Svetloba v avgustu 1 exemplaar
Smasogur 1 exemplaar
"Shall Not Perish" 1 exemplaar
Konjicki gambit 1 exemplaar
Baynama arqad muhtadirah (2014) 1 exemplaar
Dilek Agaci (2016) 1 exemplaar
Obras Completas VI 1 exemplaar
“The Tall Men” 1 exemplaar
"A Bear Hunt" 1 exemplaar
"Hair" 1 exemplaar
Snobovi 1 exemplaar
Descends, Moise 1 exemplaar
නිරා ලය 1 exemplaar
Obras escogidas I 1 exemplaar
Copacul Dorintelor 1 exemplaar
DUMAN 1 exemplaar
TYMI 1 exemplaar
ΟΙ ΚΛΕΦΤΕΣ 1 exemplaar
Lekeli Gunler 1 exemplaar
O Aksam Gunesi 1 exemplaar
Obras Completas II 1 exemplaar
Obras Completas III 1 exemplaar
HL' Ialbero dei desideri (1998) 1 exemplaar
Light in August pb 1 exemplaar
Kogda ya umirala (2017) 1 exemplaar
Humphrey Bogart Classics: Volume 2 — Writer — 1 exemplaar
Old Man [1997 TV movie] (1997) — Auteur — 1 exemplaar
Welcome to USA (2012) 1 exemplaar
Elmer (1987) 1 exemplaar
Monk [short story] 1 exemplaar
Amerikaanse verhalen — Medewerker — 1 exemplaar
El villorrio (2016) 1 exemplaar
Larmen Og Vreden 1 exemplaar
Obras Completas III 1 exemplaar
A Cosmos of My Own 1 exemplaar
Erzählungen II 1 exemplaar
The Evening Sun 1 exemplaar
Folklore of the Air 1 exemplaar
The Waifs 1 exemplaar
Histoires diverses (1967) 1 exemplaar
Sartoris / The Bear / Intruder in the Dust — Auteur — 1 exemplaar
A Point of Law 1 exemplaar
Werkausgabe 28 Briefe (1982) 1 exemplaar
Opere 1 exemplaar
Selected Short Works of William Faulkner — Auteur — 1 exemplaar
The Hound 1 exemplaar
Delta Autumn 1 exemplaar
The Road to Glory 1 exemplaar
Country Lawyer 1 exemplaar
This earth : a poem 1 exemplaar
Mektuplar (2014) 1 exemplaar
البعوض 1 exemplaar
Zstąp, Mojżeszu 1 exemplaar
2003 1 exemplaar
Road to Glory, The (1964) 1 exemplaar
New Orleansin tarinoita (2016) 1 exemplaar
TRE RÖVARE 1 exemplaar
Duman 1 exemplaar
Byn roman 1 exemplaar
Fumo 1 exemplaar
Zascianek 1 exemplaar
Wielki las (1997) 1 exemplaar
Rezydencja (1983) 1 exemplaar
The American Mercury: May 1935 (1935) 1 exemplaar
Rose of Lebanon 1 exemplaar
Cavalli pezzati (1997) 1 exemplaar
12 סיפורים (2018) 1 exemplaar
Le bruit et la fureur tome I (1973) 1 exemplaar
Santuario; Absalón, Absalón. (1993) 1 exemplaar
Aşk ve Ölüm 1 exemplaar
Extrait - L'Intrus 1 exemplaar
Οι ακατανίκητοι (1991) 1 exemplaar

Gerelateerde werken

The Best American Short Stories of the Century (2000) — Medewerker — 1,552 exemplaren
50 Great Short Stories (1952) — Medewerker — 1,242 exemplaren
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Medewerker, sommige edities915 exemplaren
My Mistress's Sparrow Is Dead (2008) — Medewerker — 760 exemplaren
The Oxford Book of American Short Stories (1992) — Medewerker — 743 exemplaren
The Dark Descent (1987) — Medewerker — 719 exemplaren
Short Story Masterpieces (1954) — Medewerker — 675 exemplaren
Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural (1944) — Medewerker — 637 exemplaren
The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales (1992) — Medewerker — 536 exemplaren
The Oxford Book of Short Stories (1981) — Medewerker — 510 exemplaren
Great American Short Stories (1957) — Medewerker — 493 exemplaren
The World of the Short Story: A 20th Century Collection (1986) — Medewerker — 461 exemplaren
American Gothic Tales (1996) — Medewerker — 457 exemplaren
The Best American Mystery Stories of the Century (2000) — Medewerker — 452 exemplaren
Fifty Great American Short Stories (1965) — Medewerker — 430 exemplaren
Best Short Stories of the Modern Age (1962) — Medewerker, sommige edities333 exemplaren
Americans in Paris: A Literary Anthology (2004) — Medewerker — 297 exemplaren
A Treasury of Short Stories (1947) — Medewerker — 291 exemplaren
Mensen in oorlog de beste oorlogsverhalen (1942) — Medewerker — 286 exemplaren
100 Years of the Best American Short Stories (2015) — Medewerker — 282 exemplaren
Six Great Modern Short Novels (1954) — Medewerker — 276 exemplaren
The Big Sleep [dvd] (1946) — Screenwriter — 267 exemplaren
The Treasury of American Short Stories (1981) — Medewerker — 267 exemplaren
Arbor House Treasury of Horror and the Supernatural (1981) — Medewerker — 196 exemplaren
To Have and Have Not [1944 film] (1944) — Writer, sommige edities190 exemplaren
The Penguin Book of American Short Stories (1969) — Medewerker — 188 exemplaren
This Is My Best (1942) — Medewerker — 186 exemplaren
Nobel Prize Library: Faulkner, O'Neill, Steinbeck (1971) — Auteur — 185 exemplaren
The Oxford Book of American Detective Stories (1996) — Medewerker — 176 exemplaren
Sixteen Short Novels (1985) — Medewerker — 174 exemplaren
Murder & Other Acts of Literature (1997) — Medewerker — 147 exemplaren
The Pocket Book of Modern American Short Stories (1943) — Medewerker — 145 exemplaren
The Penguin Book of Horror Stories (1984) — Medewerker — 141 exemplaren
An Anthology of Famous American Stories (1953) — Medewerker — 137 exemplaren
The Saturday Evening Post Treasury (1954) — Medewerker — 137 exemplaren
The Other persuasion: short fiction about gay men and women (1977) — Medewerker — 121 exemplaren
The Signet Classic Book of Southern Short Stories (1991) — Medewerker — 121 exemplaren
Magical Realist Fiction: An Anthology (1984) — Medewerker — 111 exemplaren
Great Modern Reading (1943) — Medewerker — 106 exemplaren
Norton Introduction to the Short Novel (1982) — Medewerker — 98 exemplaren
The Literature of the American South: A Norton Anthology (1997) — Medewerker — 98 exemplaren
American Short Stories (1976) — Medewerker, sommige edities95 exemplaren
More Stories to Remember, Volume II (1958) — Medewerker — 94 exemplaren
A Treasury of Civil War Stories (1985) — Medewerker — 76 exemplaren
Great Stories by Nobel Prize Winners (1959) — Medewerker — 76 exemplaren
Ten Modern Masters: An Anthology of the Short Story (1953) — Medewerker — 74 exemplaren
Great American Mystery Stories of the 20th Century (1989) — Medewerker — 73 exemplaren
Bedside Book of Famous American Stories (1936) — Medewerker — 71 exemplaren
200 Years of Great American Short Stories (1975) — Medewerker — 68 exemplaren
The Heath Anthology of American Literature, Concise Edition (2003) — Medewerker — 68 exemplaren
The Medusa in the Shield (1990) — Medewerker — 63 exemplaren
Dark Arrows: Great Stories of Revenge (1985) — Medewerker — 60 exemplaren
Gunga Din [1939 film] (1939) — Medewerker — 59 exemplaren
65 Great Tales of Horror (1981) — Medewerker — 59 exemplaren
More Stories to Remember, Volumes I & II (1958) — Medewerker — 57 exemplaren
The Penguin Classic Crime Omnibus (1984) — Medewerker — 54 exemplaren
The Arbor House Treasury of Mystery and Suspense (1981) — Medewerker — 52 exemplaren
The Art of Fiction (1967) — Medewerker — 51 exemplaren
Reading for Pleasure (1957) — Medewerker — 51 exemplaren
The Oxford Book of Sea Stories (1994) — Medewerker — 50 exemplaren
Eleven Modern Short Novels (1970) — Medewerker — 49 exemplaren
Masters of the Modern Short Story (1945) — Medewerker — 46 exemplaren
The Experience of the American Woman (1978) — Medewerker — 46 exemplaren
The Random House Book of Sports Stories (1990) — Medewerker — 45 exemplaren
The Bedside Tales: A Gay Collection (1945) — Medewerker — 45 exemplaren
The Oxford Book of Historical Stories (1994) — Medewerker — 40 exemplaren
A Quarto of Modern Literature (1935) — Medewerker — 39 exemplaren
Southern Dogs and Their People (2000) — Medewerker — 39 exemplaren
Ellery Queen's Book of Mystery Stories by 25 Famous Writers (1952) — Medewerker — 36 exemplaren
Fifty Best American Short Stories 1915-1965 (1965) — Medewerker — 36 exemplaren
Tales of Terror (1943) — Medewerker — 34 exemplaren
The Vintage Book of Classic Crime (1993) — Medewerker — 33 exemplaren
New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 1996 (1996) — Medewerker — 31 exemplaren
50 Best American Short Stories 1915-1939 (1939) — Medewerker — 28 exemplaren
Short Stories of the Sea (1984) — Medewerker — 27 exemplaren
American short stories, 1820 to the present (1952) — Medewerker — 26 exemplaren
Ten Modern Short Novels (1958) — Medewerker — 26 exemplaren
Great Short Stories of the World (1965) — Medewerker — 25 exemplaren
Trial and Error: An Oxford Anthology of Legal Stories (1998) — Medewerker — 24 exemplaren
Tales of Dungeons and Dragons (1986) — Medewerker — 23 exemplaren
Studies in Fiction (1965) — Medewerker — 22 exemplaren
The Best Horror Stories (1977) — Medewerker; Medewerker — 22 exemplaren
A Treasury of Sea Stories (1948) — Medewerker — 20 exemplaren
Short Stories II (1961) — Medewerker — 18 exemplaren
Nine Short Novels (1952) — Medewerker — 17 exemplaren
The Best American Short Stories 1966 (1966) — Medewerker — 17 exemplaren
Air Force [1943 film] (1943) — Screenwriter — 15 exemplaren
The Tarnished Angels [1957 film] (1957) — Original book — 15 exemplaren
All verdens fortellere (1990) — Medewerker, sommige edities15 exemplaren
Modern American Short Stories (1945) — Medewerker — 15 exemplaren
Nobel Writers on Writing (2000) — Medewerker — 14 exemplaren
Mississippi Writers: An Anthology (1991) — Medewerker — 14 exemplaren
Twenty-Nine Stories (1960) — Medewerker — 13 exemplaren
The Story Pocket Book (1944) — Medewerker — 13 exemplaren
31 Stories (1960) — Medewerker — 12 exemplaren
Loaded for Bear: A Treasury of Great Hunting Stories (1990) — Medewerker — 12 exemplaren
The World of Law, Volume I : The Law in Literature (1960) — Medewerker — 12 exemplaren
The Best American Short Stories 1943 (1943) — Medewerker — 11 exemplaren
Favourite Scary Stories from Graveside Al (1996) — Medewerker — 11 exemplaren
The best of the Best American short stories, 1915-1950 (1975) — Medewerker — 10 exemplaren
A New Southern Harvest (1957) — Medewerker — 10 exemplaren
Writer to Writer: Readings on the Craft of Writing (1966) — Medewerker — 8 exemplaren
Fiction Goes to Court (1954) — Medewerker — 8 exemplaren
More Stories to Remember, Volume IV (1958) — Medewerker — 8 exemplaren
Time to Be Young: Great Stories of the Growing Years (1945) — Medewerker — 7 exemplaren
Modern American Short Stories (1941) — Medewerker — 7 exemplaren
William Faulkner's Barn Burning [1980 TV movie] (1985) — Original play — 7 exemplaren
Modern American Short Stories (1987) — Medewerker — 7 exemplaren
Voor en na middernacht (1949) — Medewerker — 7 exemplaren
Erzähler des S. Fischer Verlages 1886-1978 (2018) — Auteur — 7 exemplaren
The Story Survey (1953) — Medewerker — 6 exemplaren
Concerning a Woman of Sin and Other Stories of Holllywood (1960) — Medewerker — 6 exemplaren
The Fireside Treasury of Modern Humor (1963) — Medewerker — 5 exemplaren
Strange Desires (1954) — Medewerker — 5 exemplaren
Breakdown and Other Thrillers — Medewerker — 4 exemplaren
Huivering wekken (1982) — Medewerker — 4 exemplaren
Twenty-Three Modern Stories (1963) — Medewerker — 4 exemplaren
Modern Short Stories — Medewerker — 3 exemplaren
American Short Stories (1978) — Medewerker — 3 exemplaren
Daughters of Eve (1956) — Medewerker — 3 exemplaren
Short Fiction: Shape and Substance (1971) — Medewerker — 3 exemplaren
Best Crime Stories — Medewerker — 3 exemplaren
American Short Stories (Oxford Literature Resources) (1992) — Medewerker — 2 exemplaren
Enjoying Stories (1987) — Medewerker — 2 exemplaren
Strange Barriers (1955) — Medewerker — 2 exemplaren
A Magnum of Mysteries (1963) — Medewerker — 2 exemplaren
El cuento literario (2008) — Medewerker — 2 exemplaren
O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1934 (1934) — Medewerker — 1 exemplaar
Sanctuary [1961 film] (1961) — Original novel — 1 exemplaar
Modern American short stories (1963) — Medewerker — 1 exemplaar
Introduction to Fiction (1974) — Medewerker — 1 exemplaar
15 Great Stories of Today (1946) — Medewerker — 1 exemplaar
The Ethnic Image in Modern American Literature, 1900-1950 (1984) — Medewerker — 1 exemplaar
The Avon Annual 1945: 18 Great Modern Stories (1945) — Medewerker — 1 exemplaar
The Narrative Impulse: Short Stories for Analysis (1963) — Medewerker — 1 exemplaar
Modern Short Stories — Medewerker — 1 exemplaar
The PL book of modern American short stories (1945) — Medewerker — 1 exemplaar
The Spectacle of Sport: Selected from Sports Illustrated (1957) — Medewerker — 1 exemplaar
The Saturday Evening Post Stories 1957 — Medewerker — 1 exemplaar

Tagged

Algemene kennis

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
short story writer
poet
literary critic
essayist
screenwriter (toon alle 14)
playwright
bank clerk
postmaster
roof painter
carpenter
deckhand
coal shoveler
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.

Leden

Discussies

Folio Society Devotees: Sound and Fury in Book talk (oktober 2023)
Folio Society Devotees: Sound and Fury in Folio Society Devotees (oktober 2023)
The Snopes Trilogy, Volume III, The Mansion in Club Read 2023 (september 2023)
The Snopes Trilogy, Volume II, The Town in Club Read 2023 (augustus 2023)
The Snopes Trilogy Group Read: The Hamlet in Club Read 2023 (juli 2023)
The Sound and the Fury LE in Folio Society Devotees (mei 2021)
Faulkner and james Branch Cabell in William Faulkner and his Literary Kin (oktober 2020)
As I Lay Dying: The More You Know. in William Faulkner and his Literary Kin (november 2018)
William Faulkner- American Author Challenge in 75 Books Challenge for 2014 (maart 2014)
LIGHT IN AUGUST - Group Read Discussion Thread in 75 Books Challenge for 2013 (augustus 2013)
The Sound and the Fury GROUP READ in 2013 Category Challenge (april 2013)

Besprekingen

het verwoorden van menselijk drama en groot gevoel van empathie
 
Gemarkeerd
gielen.tejo | 105 andere besprekingen | Sep 23, 2020 |
literaire studie naar wat de mens aankan in een verscheurde samenleving.
 
Gemarkeerd
gielen.tejo | 223 andere besprekingen | Sep 23, 2020 |
meest meeslepende, maar toch de zwartste roman. Tragisch en filosofisch.
 
Gemarkeerd
gielen.tejo | 214 andere besprekingen | Sep 23, 2020 |
Difficult read, but brilliant all the same.
 
Gemarkeerd
marilib | 223 andere besprekingen | Jul 31, 2020 |

Lijsten

scav (1)
1920s (1)
1950s (1)
Romans (1)
100 (1)
1930s (6)
AP Lit (4)
Robin (1)
My TBR (2)
Reiny (2)

Prijzen

Misschien vindt je deze ook leuk

Gerelateerde auteurs

Robert Penn Warren Introduction, Contributor
Ernest Hemingway Contributor
Carson McCullers Contributor
John Huston Director
Irving Ravetch Screenwriter
Delmer Daves Director
Edgar Allan Poe Contributor
Shirley Jackson Contributor
Washington Irving Contributor
Stephen Crane Contributor
James Thurber Contributor
Frank Stockton Contributor
Jack London Contributor
H. P. Lovecraft Contributor
Mark Twain Contributor
Carl Stephenson Contributor
O'Henry Contributor
Ambrose Bierce Contributor
Herman Melville Contributor
Edith Wharton Contributor
James Joyce Contributor
Henry James Contributor
Joseph Conrad Contributor
Graham Greene Contributor
Clarence Day Contributor
James Norman Hall Contributor
Charles Nordhoff Contributor
MacKinlay Kantor Contributor
James M. Cain Contributor
Ross Hunter Producer
Raoul Walsh Director
Maurice Edgar Coindreau Traduction, Translator, Contributor
Cleanth Brooks Introduction, Contributor
James Avati Cover artist
Malcolm Cowley Editor & Introduction
Henry Seidel Canby Contributor
Patrick O'Donnell Contributor
Calvin Bedient Contributor
Henry Nash Smith Contributor
Edwin Muir Contributor
Stephen M. Ross Contributor
Olga W. Vickery Contributor
Julia K. W. Baker Contributor
Eric Sundquist Contributor
John Limon Contributor
Valery Larbaud Contributor
C. D. Mitchell Contributor
Richard Gray Contributor
James Agee Contributor
André Bleikasten Contributor
Thoms D. Clark Contributor
Doreen Fowler Contributor
Fred Hobson Contributor
Clifton Fadiman Contributor
Noel Polk Editor
Carvel Collins Editor, Introduction
Val Avery Actor
Ann Blyth Actor
John Vandenbergh Translator
Kai Kaila Translator
Bernt Jonasson Illustrator
Alan Phillips Illustrator
Clarisse Tavares Translator
Richard Godden Introduction
Krastan Dyankov Translator
Allan Mardon Illustrator
Steven H. Stroud Illustrator
Ana Maria Chaves Translator
Emilio Tadini Introduction
Gunnar Barklund Translator
Jordi Arbonès Translator
Bill Oakes Illustrator
Helge Simonsen Translator
Helmut M. Braem Translator
Hans H. Skei Translator
Rudolf Pellar Translator
Elisabeth Kaiser Translator
Josef Jařab Afterword
Lorna Raver Narrator
Rien Verhoef Translator
Apie Prins Translator
Will Patton Narrator
Sigurd Hoel Translator
Franz Fein Übersetzer
Susanne Höbel Übersetzer
James Hill Cover artist
Mar van Keulen Translator
Han B. Aalberse Translator
Johan van Keulen Translator
Erich Franzen Translator
Edward Shenton Illustrator
George P. Garrett Introduction
Thomas Warburton Translator
Robert Cantwell Introduction
Barye Phillips Cover artist
Mario Andreose Afterword
Carlo Prosperi Translator
Don Bolognese Illustrator
George Garrett Afterword
Jerry Wald Writer

Statistieken

Werken
430
Ook door
185
Leden
86,401
Populariteit
#126
Waardering
3.9
Besprekingen
1,075
ISBNs
1,426
Talen
34
Favoriet
494

Tabellen & Grafieken