William Faulkner
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Literature — 1949for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel
- Citizenship
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United States - Languages
- English
- date of birth
- 9/25/1897
- place of birth
- New Albany
- date of death
- 7/6/1962
- place of death
- Byhalia
- Lived
- 64 years
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- educated at
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- University of Mississippi
- academic degree: Master of Science
- start time: 1919
- end time: 1921
- University of Virginia
- University of Mississippi
- occupation
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- writer
- poet
- screenwriter
- playwright
- children's writer
- novelist
- short story writer
- notable work
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- As I Lay Dying
- The Sound and the Fury
- A Rose for Emily
- Light in August
- Absalom, Absalom!
- field of work
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- novel
- member of
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- American Academy of Arts and Letters