William Faulkner brief biography & chronology, was recipient of the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature.
William Faulkner, recipient of the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature, was born in New Albany, Mississippi. He was the first of four sons born to Murray Charles and Maud Faulkner. He dropped out of high school in 1915, but he studied literature at the University of Mississippi. He joined the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War I. He later worked in a bookstore in New York and then for a newspaper in New Orleans.
Faulkner began writing poetry when he was 13. His first book, THE MARBLE FAUN, was published when he was 27. He is best known for his Yoknapatawpha cycle which began in 1929 with his novel SARTORIS/FLAGS IN THE DUST. The cycle ended with THE MANSION which was published in 1959.
William Faulkner died of a coronary occlusion in 1962.
CHRONOLOGY
1897 He was born in New Albany, Mississippi.
1915 He dropped out of high school.
1924 THE MARBLE FAUN
1926 SOLDIER'S PAY
1927 MOSQUITOES
1929 SARTORIS/FLAGS IN THE DUST; THE SOUND AND THE FURY; He married Estelle Oldham Franklin.
1930 AS I LAY DYING
1931 SANCTUARY
1932 LIGHT IN AUGUST
1935 PYLON
1936 ABSALOM, ABSALOM!
1938 THE UNVANQUISHED
1939 THE WILD PALMS
1940 THE HAMLET
1942 GO DOWN, MOSES
1946 THE PORTABLE FAULKNER
1948 INTRUDER IN THE DUST
1949 KNIGHT'S GAMBIT
1950 COLLECTED STORIES
1951 REQUIEM FOR A NUN
1954 A FABLE
1957 THE TOWN
1959 THE MANSION
1962 THE REIVERS; WILLIAM FAULKNER: EARLY PROSE AND POETRY; He died of a coronary occlusion. (July 6)
1964 FAULKNER AT WEST POINT
1966 ESSAYS, SPEECHES AND PUBLIC LETTERS
1968 THE FAULKNER-COWLEY FILE
1973 FLAGS IN THE DUST
1975 THE MARIONETTES
1977 MAYDAY; SELECTD LETTERS OF WILLIAM FAULKNER
1979 UNCOLLECTED STORIES OF WILLIAM FAULKNER
1981 SANCTUARY: THE ORIGINAL TEXT
