William Faulkner

Born

September 25, 1897

Died

July 6, 1962 (aged 64)

Known as

screenwriter, poet, novelist, short story writer, playwright, children's writer

William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer. He is best known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, a stand-in for Lafayette County where he spent most of his life. Winner of the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature, Faulkner is one of the most celebrated writers of American literature, often considered the greatest writer of Southern literature and regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century.

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