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A Short Biography of William Faulkner

Author Name:

William Faulkner

Born As:

William Cuthbert Falkner

Other Names:

William Faulkner

Born:

25 Sep 1897

Died:

06 Jul 1962




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Novelist and poet                          
Selected works:

Novels:

Soldiers' Pay - 1926
Father Abraham - written: 1926/1927 pub: 1983
Mosquitoes - 1927
Sartoris/Flags in the Dust - 1929/1973
The Sound and the Fury - 1929
As I Lay Dying - 1930
Sanctuary - 1931
Light in August - 1932
Pylon - 1935
Absalom, Absalom! - 1937
The Unvanquished - 1938
If I Forget Thee Jerusalem - The Wild Palms/Old Man - 1939
The Hamlet - 1940
Go Down, Moses - 1942. Episodic novel made up of seven rewritten, previously published stories including Pantaloon in Black, The Old People, The Bear, Delta Autumn, and the title story
Intruder in the Dust - 1948
Requiem for a Nun - 1951
A Fable - 1954
The Town - 1957
The Mansion - 1959
The Reivers - 1962

Short Stories:

Landing in Luck - 1919
The Hill - 1922
New Orleans
Mirrors of Chartres Street - 1925
Damon and Pythias Unlimited - 1925
Jealousy - 1925
Cheest - 1925
Out of Nazareth - 1925
The Kingdom of God - 1925
The Rosary - 1925
The Cobbler - 1925
Chance - 1925
Sunset - 1925
The Kid Learns - 1925
The Liar - 1925
Home - 1925
Episode - 1925
Country Mice - 1925
Yo Ho and Two Bottles of Rum - 1925
Music - Sweeter than the Angels Sing
A Rose for Emily - 1930
Honor - 1930
Thrift - 1930
Red Leaves - 1930
Ad Astra - 1931
Dry September - 1931
That Evening Sun - 1931
Hair - 1931
Spotted Horses - 1931
The Hound - 1931
Fox Hunt - 1931
Carcassonne - 1931
Divorce in Naples - 1931
Victory - 1931
All the Dead Pilots - 1931
Crevasse - 1931
Mistral - 1931
A Justice - 1931
Dr. Martino - 1931
Idyll in the Desert - 1931
Miss Zilphia Grant - 1932
Death Drag - 1932
Centaur in Brass - 1932
Once Aboard the Lugger - I - 1932
Lizards in Jamshyd's Courtyard - 1932
Turnabout - 1932
Smoke - 1932
Mountain Victory - 1932
There Was a Queen - 1933
Artist at Home - 1933
Beyond - 1933
Elly - 1934
Pennsylvania Station - 1934
Wash - 1934
A Bear Hunt - 1934
The Leg - 1934
Black Music - 1934
Mule in the Yard - 1934
Ambuscade - 1934
Retreat - 1934
Lo! - 1934
Raid - 1934
Skirmish at Sartoris - 1935
Golden Land - 1935
That Will Be Fine - 1935
Uncle Willy - 1935
Lion - 1935
The Brooch - 1936
Two Dollar Wife - 1936
Fool About a Horse - 1936
Vendee - 1936
Monk - 1937
Barn Burning - 1939
Hand Upon the Waters - 1939
A Point of Law - 1940
The Old People - 1940
Pantaloon in Black - 1940
Gold Is Not Always - 1940
Tomorrow - 1940. Filmed in 1972, starring Robert Duvall.
The Tall Men - 1941
Two Soldiers - 1942 Filmed in 2003.
Delta Autumn - 1942
The Bear - novella - 1942
Afternoon of a Cow - 1943
Shingles for the Lord - 1943
My Grandmother Millard and General Bedford Forrest and the Battle of Harrykin Creek - 1943
Shall Not Perish - 1943
Appendix, Compson, 1699-1945 - 1946
An Error in Chemistry - 1946
A Courtship - 1948
Knight's Gambit - 1949
Nobel Prize Award Speech - 1949
A Name for the City - 1950
Notes on a Horsethief - 1951
Mississippi - 1954
Sepulture South: Gaslight - 1954
Race at Morning - 1955
By the People - 1955
Hell Creek Crossing - 1962
Mr. Acarius - 1965
The Wishing Tree - 1967
Al Jackson - 1971
And Now What's To Do - 1973
Nympholepsy - 1973
The Priest - 1976
Mayday - 1977
Frankie and Johnny - 1978
Don Giovanni - 1979
Peter - 1979
A Portrait of Elmer - 1979
Adolescence - 1979
Snow - 1979
Moonlight - 1979
With Caution and Dispatch - 1979
Hog Pawn - 1979
A Dangerous Man - 1979
A Return - 1979
The Big Shot - 1979
Once Aboard the Lugger - II - 1979
Dull Tale - 1979
Evangeline - 1979
Love - 1988
Christmas Tree - 1995
Rose of Lebanon - 1995
Lucas Beauchamp - 1999

Poetry:

Vision in Spring - 1921
The Marble Faun - 1924
A Green Bough - 1933
This Earth, a Poem - 1932
Mississippi Poems - 1979
Helen, a Courtship and Mississippi Poems - 1981.                          
Mother Maud Butle
Father Murry Cuthbert Falkner
Wife Estelle Oldham                          
                          
Changed the spelling of his name to Faulkner.