William Faulkner

William Cuthbert Faulkner (September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American novelist and short-story writer most known for his works set in the fictitious Yoknapatawpha County, where Faulkner lived for the majority of his life. Faulkner is widely regarded as one of the greatest authors of Southern literature and one of the most acclaimed writers of American literature.

His work A Fable, published in 1954, received both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. In addition, William Faulkner won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949 for "his profound and aesthetically original contribution to the contemporary American novel.". The Modern Library named three of his works to list the 100 greatest English-language novels of the twentieth century in 1998: The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, and Light in August. Especially, he used a portion of his Nobel prize money to "create a fund to promote and encourage budding fiction authors," which led to the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction.

Famous Novels: The Sound and the Fury (1929), As I Lay Dying (1930), Absalom, Absalom! (1936)