Faulkner
[fawk-ner]
- William,1897–1962, U.S. novelist and short-story writer. Nobel Prize 1949.
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Contemporary Examples
Faulkner, Whitman, and Dickinson did not labor in vain; their books live on, horizontally, stacked like bricks in a display case.
Whatever else they were, García Márquez and Faulkner were both great storytellers.
Lionel Trilling routinely hailed Hemingway and Faulkner, F.R. Leavis venerated D.H. Lawrence.
Bar., the Faulkner adaptation As I Lay Dying, and the Sal Mineo biopic Sal, which was released on Nov. 1.
James Franco On ‘Sal,’ Banksy, His Gay Fascination, and That Faulkner CoverMarlow Stern
November 4, 2013
On the other hand, the only reason that that cover is what it is is because the publisher wants to sell more Faulkner books.
James Franco On ‘Sal,’ Banksy, His Gay Fascination, and That Faulkner CoverMarlow Stern
November 4, 2013
Historical Examples
There were but few houses in it when Faulkner published his map in 1813.
A Walk from London to FulhamThomas Crofton Croker
Faulkner, E. Boyd; enlisted July 23, 1862; detailed at headquarters.
The Story of a Cannoneer Under Stonewall JacksonEdward A. Moore
He disliked Faulkner, and objected to his cutting into the conversation.
Tom, Dick and HarryTalbot Baines Reed
Faulkner assumed an air of real affliction, presumably for the departed.
Tom, Dick and HarryTalbot Baines Reed
On the site of this, the corner house, the local historian Faulkner lived.
ChelseaG. E. (Geraldine Edith) Mitton
Faulkner
Falkner
- 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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