William Faulkner (September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was a Nobel Prize-winning American author. One of the most influential writers of the 20th century, his reputation is based on his novels, novellas and short stories. He was also a published poet and an occasional screenwriter. Most of Faulkner's works are set in his native state of Mississippi. He is considered one of the most important Southern writers along with Mark Twain, Robert Penn Warren, Flannery O'Connor, Truman Capote, Eudora Welty, and Tennessee Williams. While his work was published regularly starting in the mid 1920s, Faulkner was relatively unknown before receiving the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is now deemed among the greatest American writers of all time. (via Wikipedia)

About William Faulkner

Spouse: Estelle Oldham

Genre: Southern Gothic

Place of Death: Byhalia, Mississippi, USA

Name: William Faulkner

Occupation: Novelist, short story writer

Influenced: Juan Rulfo, Gabriel García Márquez, Malcolm Lowry, Norman Mailer, Joyce Carol Oates, Flannery O'Connor, Cormac McCarthy, Harper Lee, Peter Carey, Don DeLillo, Philip Roth, Steve Erickson, Louise Erdrich, Hunter S. Thompson, Edna O'Brien, Gilles Deleuze, Juan Carlos Onetti, Ken Kesey, Michel Foucault, Stephen King, Guram Dochanashvili, António Lobo Antunes

Name At Birth: William Cuthbert Falkner

Birthplace: New Albany, Mississippi, USA

Awards: Nobel Prize in Literature, 1949

Period: Modernism, Stream of consciousness

Influenced By: James Joyce, William Shakespeare, Sherwood Anderson, Keats, Mark Twain, Hermann Melville, Gustave Flaubert, Honoré de Balzac, Charles Dickens, Joseph Conrad, Miguel de Cervantes, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Death Date: Jul 6, 1962