William Faulkner

The inventor of Yoknapatawpha, whose fractured Southern sagas gave modernism an American accent.

Specifications & Metrics

era

1897 – 1962

language

English

region

Oxford, Mississippi

notable works

The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Light in August, Absalom, Absalom!

Core Principles & Analysis

• He set nearly all his major fiction in one invented Mississippi county.
• His multiple-viewpoint chronicles remade the novel's treatment of time.
• He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949.

Sources

• Wikipedia: William Faulkner