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

Following to a large degree in the Southern gothic vein of William Faulkner, William Styron, Carson McCullers and Pat Conroy, among others, the Virginia-born Mr. Goolrick said he found through his retrospective approach to storytelling a modest reckoning, if never quite a fuller solace, with a past that retained a frightening power over him.

From Washington Post

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

From Inc

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

Fiction's field was dominated by Southern writers, mostly derivative of Faulkner: William Humphrey's The Ordways was a sunnier, mellower As I Lay Dying, and the late Flannery O'Connor's Everything That Rises Must Converge was a collection of brilliant short stories with all the Faulknerian sense of Southern Gothic horror.

From Time Magazine Archive