Name of Author: William Cuthbert
Born: September 25, 1897
Died: July 6, 1962
Years Active: 1919–1962
Spouse(s): Estelle Oldham
Works:The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom!, A Rose for Emily, The Bear
LEARN MORE ABOUT WILLIAM:
•William Cuthbert Falkner, born on September 25, 1897 at New Albany, Mississippi, U.S.
• Their family moved to Oxford, Mississippi when he was a young child.
• In the outbreak World War I, he decided to join on the Royal Canadian Air Force but say, he did not serve in combat.
• After they returned to Oxford, he attended in the University of Mississippi for three semesters before dropping out.
• He then moved to New Orleans, where he wrote his first novel Soldiers’ Pay (1925). Returning to Oxford, he wrote Sartoris (1927), his first work which is set in Yoknapatawpha County.
• [1929] He published The Sound and the Fury. The following year, he wrote As I Lay Dying. Seeking greater economic success, he went to Hollywood to work as a screenwriter.
• 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 laureate. Two of his works, A Fable (1954) and his last novel The Reivers (1962), won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
• [1962] His economic success allowed him to purchase an estate in Oxford, Rowan Oak. Faulkner died from a heart attack on July 6, 1962 related to a fall from his horse the prior month.
• [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 on 1930 and Light in August on 1932. Absalom, Absalom! on 1936 appears on the similar lists.
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