![]() ![]() His 19th and final, The Reivers, in 1962, the year he died. In addition to several speeches, Faulkner also wrote several essays on topics ranging from Albert Camus to Japan.Ī year later in 1926, Faulkner's first novel Soldiers' Pay was published. ![]() His works commonly appeared in literary magazines like Scribner 's and many were published posthumously. To financially support himself, Faulkner was a prolific short story writer. While living in New Orleans in 1925, Faulkner published over a dozen short stories in The Times-Picayune, often collectively known as the "New Orleans Sketches". Many of his earliest works as a student were published in other University of Mississippi publications. ![]() Two more poems, "Cathay" and "Sapphics" and a short story, " Landing in Luck", were published in Mississippian in November 1919. He is best known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, a stand-in for his hometown of Oxford in Lafayette County, Mississippi.įaulkner made his debut as a published writer at the age of 21 with the poem "L'Après-midi d'un Faune", which appeared in The New Republic on August 6, 1919. ![]() William Faulkner (1897-1962) was an American writer who won the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature. William Faulkner is widely considered the greatest writer of Southern literature, and one of the most esteemed writers of American literature. ![]()
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