it is all about william faulkner

1. William Faulkner
(writer) 1894-1962

2. William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer
and Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford, Mississippi.
Faulkner wrote novels, short stories, a play, poetry,
essays, and screenplays.
Faulkner is one of the most
celebrated writers in American
literature generally and
Southern literature specifically.

3. introduction
 American writer William Faulkner was
born in New Albany, Mississippi, in 1894.
 His parents was Murry Faulkner and
Maud Butler Faulkner.
 he was died in 6 July 1962, Byhalia,
Mississippi, United States

4. His life & career
•. Faulkner had a natural desire for oil
painting and writing poetry by the time he
turn 5 years of age, while other kids around
this time preferred outside playing.
•. By 1940 his writing career took a higher rank
when he moved to California to be a screen
writer of movies such as “To have and to have
Not,” and “The big sleep.”

5. The short stories by him...
New Orleans Sketches(1925, 1958) These 13(1931)
Doctor Martino and Other Stories(1934) ThePortableFaulkner(1946)
Knight’s Gambit (1949) Collected Storiesof WilliamFaulkner (1950)
Big Woods: The Hunting Stories (1955) Three Famous Short Novels(1958)
Selected Short Stories of William Faulkner(1961) The Wishing Tree(1964)
A Faulkner Miscellany(1974) Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner

6. Books written by him
As I Lay Dying Light in August Absalom, AbsalomThe Sound and
the Fury
Go Down, Moses Intruder in the DustThe Hamlet A Rose for Emily

7. His quotes
 Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors. Try
to be better than yourself.
I believe that man will not merely
endure; he will prevail.
The past is not dead. In fact, it's not
even past.

8. His achievements
• he was awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature
• the National Book Award for Fiction for Collected Stories and the
Legion of Honor in New Orleans
• the 1951 National Book Award for The Collected Stories of William
Faulkner
• Faulkner was awarded the 1955 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction

9. Died: 6 July
1962, Byhalia,
Mississippi, United
States

10. -by
Harshit Agrel Namdev
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