Modernism
William Faulkner
1897 – 1962
American writer (1897-1962)
- United States
- American
- Modernism
- Southern Gothic
- Stream of Consciousness
- modernist-literature
- ◆ Nobel 1949
About
William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer. He is best known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, a stand-in for Lafayette County where he spent most of his life. Winner of the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature, Faulkner is one of the most celebrated writers of American literature, often considered the greatest writer of Southern literature and regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century.
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