Faulkner

American  

[fawk-ner] / ˈfɔk nər /

noun

1. William, 1897–1962, U.S. novelist and short-story writer. Nobel Prize 1949.

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Faulkner British  

/ ˈfɔːknə /

noun

1. William. 1897–1962, US novelist and short-story writer. Most of his works portray the problems of the southern US, esp the novels set in the imaginary county of Yoknapatawpha in Mississippi. Other novels include The Sound and the Fury (1929) and Light in August (1932): Nobel prize for literature 1949

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Other Word Forms

• Faulknerian
  adjective

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Faulkner

And yet, along the Cannery Row of his Nobel-winning contemporaries—Hemingway, Faulkner, Pearl Buck—John Steinbeck retains a singular and very American claim to fame: his movies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Faulkner, 54, added: "I want to say thank you to our wonderful NHS and the fact that we can have these mammograms, and we can get treatment early."

From BBC ● Jul. 2, 2026

Wayne Faulkner is from Los Angeles but now lives in Indiana, where gas is about $3.50 per gallon.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026

The newly identified manuscript was discovered by medieval manuscript experts Dr. Elisabetta Magnanti and Dr. Mark Faulkner of Trinity College Dublin.

From Science Daily ● May 17, 2026

It was Claire Faulkner, the usher on night duty.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama

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