William Faulkner
William Faulkner was an American novelist and short story writer, widely regarded as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century.
His work, set largely in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, explored the decline of the Southern aristocracy, racial injustice, and the weight of history.
Known for dense, stream-of-consciousness prose and fractured chronology, his major novels include *The Sound and the Fury*, *As I Lay Dying*, and *Absalom, Absalom!* He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949.
Southern state or major river
- OxfordHistoric English university town
- Nobel PrizeHighest academic honor
- HollywoodAmerican film industry center
- screenwriterAuthor of film scripts
alcoholism · postmaster · RAF · pilot · Estelle · Jill · hunting · horses
Narrative of unfiltered thought
- Southern GothicRegional literature of decay
- modernismFavoring contemporary approaches
- experimentalTesting new methods
- intricateElaborately detailed, many parts
prose · narrative · complexity · symbolism · diction · characterization · dialogue · themes
Before a war's start
- postbellumAfter a war
- plantationLarge-scale farming operation
- Civil WarCountrymen fighting countrymen
- ReconstructionPost-1865 national reunification period
racial · cotton · delta · decay · decadence · aristocracy · legacy · tradition
Monster-protecting TV drama
- SnopesMisinformation verification site
- Go Down MosesAfrican American spiritual hymn
- JeffersonThird American president
- QuentinGiven name, masculine
Distinguished achievement award recipient
- literatureBody of written works
- Toni Morrison"Song of Solomon"
- Pulitzer PrizeElite American letters award
- National Book AwardU.S. literary honor
Gabriel García Márquez · Cormac McCarthy · Flannery O'Connor · legacy · erudition · prestige · recognition · achievement
Mississippi
Southern state or major river
- OxfordHistoric English university town
- Nobel PrizeHighest academic honor
- HollywoodAmerican film industry center
screenwriter · alcoholism · postmaster · RAF · pilot · Estelle · Jill · hunting · horses · Random House
stream-of-consciousness
Narrative of unfiltered thought
- Southern GothicRegional literature of decay
- modernismFavoring contemporary approaches
- experimentalTesting new methods
intricate · prose · narrative · complexity · symbolism · diction · characterization · dialogue · themes · fragmented
antebellum
Before a war's start
- postbellumAfter a war
- plantationLarge-scale farming operation
- Civil WarCountrymen fighting countrymen
Reconstruction · racial · cotton · delta · decay · decadence · aristocracy · legacy · tradition · miscegenation
Sanctuary
Monster-protecting TV drama
- SnopesMisinformation verification site
- Go Down MosesAfrican American spiritual hymn
- JeffersonThird American president
Nobel laureate
Distinguished achievement award recipient
- literatureBody of written works
- Toni Morrison"Song of Solomon"
- Pulitzer PrizeElite American letters award
Gabriel García Márquez · Cormac McCarthy · Flannery O'Connor · National Book Award · legacy · erudition · prestige · recognition · achievement
- Southern LiteratureFlannery O'Connor, Harper Lee, Truman Capote, Zora Neale Hurston, The Help
- literaturebooks, book, fiction, poetry, stories
- AuthorsShakespeare, Mark Twain, Twain, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald
- Literary AuthorsC.S. Lewis, Dostoevsky, J.R.R. Tolkien, Virginia Woolf, Oscar Wilde
- SouthernSouthern belles, sweet tea, front porch, grits, y'all
- Southern IconsElvis Presley, Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Johnny Cash, Dolly Parton
William FaulknerErnest Hemingway
minimalist · Cormac McCarthy · Dashiell Hammett · Joan Didion · spare prose
William FaulknerJohn Steinbeck
Jack London · Raymond Chandler · Joan Didion · Saul Bellow · Philip Roth
William FaulknerJohn Grisham
Courtroom fiction writer
Stephen King · James Patterson · Danielle Steel · Tom Clancy · Nicholas Sparks