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William Faulkner

Born

in New Albany, Mississippi, The United States

September 25, 1897

Died

July 06, 1962

Genre

Fiction, Poetry, Southern Gothic

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William Cuthbert Faulkner was a Nobel Prize-winning American novelist and short story writer. One of the most influential writers of the twentieth century, his reputation is based mostly on his novels, novellas, and short stories. He was also a published poet and an occasional screenwriter.

The majority of his works are set in his native state of Mississippi. Though his work was published as early as 1919, and largely during the 1920s and 1930s, Faulkner was relatively unknown until receiving the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature, "for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel." Faulkner has often been cited as one of the most important writers in the history of American literature. Faulkner was influenced b ...more

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William Faulkner’s books

Average rating: 3.84 · 597,746 ratings · 35,706 reviews · 932 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Sound and the Fury 3.85 avg rating — 182,392 ratings — published 1929 — 610 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	As I Lay Dying 3.72 avg rating — 168,786 ratings — published 1930 — 449 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Light in August by William Faulkner, Joseph Blotner, Noel Polk (Editor) 3.94 avg rating — 62,005 ratings — published 1932 — 76 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Absalom, Absalom! 3.98 avg rating — 44,610 ratings — published 1936 — 265 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Rose for Emily and Other Stories 4.06 avg rating — 25,931 ratings — published 1930 — 115 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sanctuary 3.63 avg rating — 13,545 ratings — published 1931 — 295 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Rose for Emily 3.83 avg rating — 11,068 ratings — published 1930 — 51 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Go Down, Moses 3.93 avg rating — 10,107 ratings — published 1942 — 131 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Collected Stories 4.24 avg rating — 7,688 ratings — published 1950 — 85 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Reivers 3.78 avg rating — 7,618 ratings — published 1962 — 217 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Snopes Trilogy (3 books)
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November 2014 Revisit the Shelf Classics Poll

1860, The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins, 672 pages

20 votes, 15.3%

1953, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, 238 pages

16 votes, 12.2%

1962, We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson, 160 pages

15 votes, 11.5%

1866, Crime and Punishment byFyodor Dostoyevsky, 545 pages

12 votes, 9.2%

1883, Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, 311 pages

11 votes, 8.4%

1951, The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, 277 pages

11 votes, 8.4%

1847, Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray, 867 pages

10 votes, 7.6%

1898, The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells, 192 pages

9 votes, 6.9%

1887, A Study in Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle, 108 pages

8 votes, 6.1%

1929, The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner, 326 pages

7 votes, 5.3%

1935, Jamaica Inn by Daphne du Maurier, 320 pages

6 votes, 4.6%

1981, The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, 314 pages

6 votes, 4.6%

131 total votes

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