Faulkner, William

Cultural  

1. A twentieth-century American author. His works, mostly set in the South, include the novels The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying. He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1949.

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Example Sentences

The darker side that William Faulkner, William Styron and, Tennessee Williams depicted in their novels or plays was nowhere to be seen.

From Inc • Jul. 12, 2012

Faulkner Wells was born in 1936, four months after the death of her father, Dean Swift Faulkner, William Faulkner’s youngest brother, in a plane crash.

From Washington Post • Jul. 28, 2011