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William Faulkner
American novelist and short-story writer whose fiction, often set in the invented Yoknapatawpha County, includes The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying and Light in August.
Yoknapatawpha fiction
William Faulkner built an interlinked fictional world around Yoknapatawpha County in Mississippi. Novels such as The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying and Light in August use shifting perspectives and complex chronology to examine family, history and social change in the American South.
Recognition and legacy
Faulkner received the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature and two Pulitzer Prizes. The Nobel biography notes his deep connection to Mississippi and the continuing influence of his fiction. Astro-Databank records an approximate family-reported birth time of about 11 p.m.
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