William Faulkner
Born
in New Albany, Mississippi, The United States
September 25, 1897
Died
July 06, 1962
Genre
Influences
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The Sound and the Fury
171 editions
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1929
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As I Lay Dying
507 editions
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1930
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Light in August
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376 editions
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published
1932
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Absalom, Absalom!
305 editions
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published
1936
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A Rose for Emily and Other Stories
65 editions
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published
1930
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Sanctuary
343 editions
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published
1931
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A Rose for Emily
68 editions
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published
1930
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Go Down, Moses
166 editions
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published
1942
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Collected Stories
128 editions
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published
1950
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The Reivers
216 editions
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published
1962
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“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
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Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
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“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
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Polls
December 2014 Revisit the Shelf Classic
1843, A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, 104 pages
1981, The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera, 314 pages
1898, The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells, 192 pages
1952, East of Eden by John Steinbeck, 601 pages
1951, The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger, 277 pages
1980, The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, 536 pages
1929, The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner, 326 pages
1943, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith, 496 pages
1811, Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen, 409 pages
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