William Faulkner
William Faulkner (September 25, 1897 - July 6, 1962) was a Nobel and Pulitzer prize winning American author. He was a lifelong resident of Mississippi, and its only Nobel laureate, winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949. He was reportedly recommended to the committee by a Swedish journalist who translated American novelists.
Essentially self-taught and homeschooled, Faulkner never graduated from high school.
Faulkner is most famous for writing The Sound and the Fury (1929), As I Lay Dying (1930),[1] and Absalom, Absalom! (1936).[2][3][4][5]
Faulkner wrote about the fall of Southern aristocracy. Difficult to follow, his works are creative and explore psychological aspects of his characters. Liberals like Faulkner for his mockery of southern whites, which Faulkner does in the form of stream-of-consciousness in As I Lay Dying.
Absalom, Absalom! is widely considered the greatest southern novel ever written. In Faulkner's characteristically bizarre style, this novel contains the longest sentence in American literature: 1,228 words.[6] (Other very long sentences are in Jonathan Coe’s The Rotter’s Club (a 13,955 word sentence) and James Joyce's Ulysses (a 4,391 word sentence).[7]
Faulkner eventually married his childhood sweetheart in 1929, after she divorced the man she had married a decade earlier, under pressure from her family.[8]
References
- ↑ As I Lay Dying contains 56,903 words and relatively high use of the passive voice. [1]
- ↑ http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~egjbp/faulkner/faulkner.html
- ↑ http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1949/faulkner-bio.html
- ↑ http://almaz.com/nobel/literature/1949a.html
- ↑ http://www.booksfactory.com/writers/faulkner.htm
- ↑ http://www.openculture.com/2019/03/when-william-faulkner-set-the-world-record-for-writing-the-longest-sentence-in-literature.html
- ↑ https://thejohnfox.com/long-sentences/
- ↑ https://www.notablebiographies.com/Du-Fi/Faulkner-William.html