William faulkner

William Faulkner, age 33, modeling the open-collar look in this publicity shot for his novel “Sanctuary.” Photo by J. R. Cofield of Oxford, Mississippi. © The Cofield Collection. The Cofields were family friends, and photographed Faulkner over the years from 1930 to 1962. * “Man knows so little about his fellows. In his eyes all men or women act upon what he believes would motivate him if he were mad enough to do what that other man or woman is doing.” —“Light in August” (1932) * “William…

WILLIAM FAULKNER -- September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962

William Cuthbert Faulkner ( September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer and Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner wrote novels, short stories, a play, poetry, essays and screenplays. He is primarily known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where he spent most of his life.

William Faulkner

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William Faulkner

Twixt Cup and Lip, an early work by the future Nobel prizewinner unseen until now, appears in the Strand magazine

The biggest name in Southern lit didn't spend his whole life in Mississippi

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