English Literature

William Faulkner  (1897 – 1962)  William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer and a Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford, Mississippi.  He is primarily known for his novels, short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha Country based on Lafayetle Country Mississippi where he spent most of his life. He got the Nobel Prize in literature in 1949.  Two of his works A Fable (1954) and his last novel The Reivers (1962) won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. He wrote his first novel Soldier’s Pay and second Mosquitoes.  Faulkner wrote his first novel set in his fictional Yoknapatawpha Country entitled Flags in the Dust drew heavily on the traditions and history of the south and finally published in 1928 as Sartois.  In 1962, he died of a massive heart attack. His most celebrated novels such as The Sound and the Fury (1929), As I lay Dying (1930), Light in August (1932) and Absalom! Absalom! (1936). His first story collection These 13 (1931) includes many of his most acclaim