Author

Books by William Faulkner

William Faulkner (1897–1962) was an American novelist and short story writer from Mississippi, generally considered one of the most technically innovative writers in American literary history. He spent most of his life in Oxford, Mississippi, near which his fictional Yoknapatawpha County is set. His major works include The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Absalom, Absalom!, and The Bear. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949. Light in August, published in 1932, is often cited as a more accessible starting point for readers new to his work than his earlier, more formally radical novels.