Novelist William Faulkner

William Faulkner

Living place: Mississippi

Birthday: 25-9-1897

Global rank: #23236

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Who is Novelist William Faulkner?
A Pulitzer Prize-winning Southern Gothic writer whose best-known works include The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, and The Rose for Emily. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949. He became known for his distinctive writing style, which was characterized by long, vividly descriptive sentences.

Young / Before famous

He specialized in writing poems during his teenage years. He began working on his masterpiece novel, Sound and Fury, when he was thirty years old.

Family life info

He grew up in Mississippi as one of four sons born to Murry Cuthbert Falkner and Maud Butler. He married Estelle Oldham in 1929 and had several extramarital affairs. He had a daughter named Jill.

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Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Novelist William Faulkner là ai?
He and his contemporary, Ernest Hemingway, wrote in very different styles (Hemingway filled his work with short, narrative sentences) and strongly disliked each other.

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When was Novelist William Faulkner born?
William Faulkner was born in 25-9-1897, death year is , at the age of 127.
Where is Novelist William Faulkner's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
William Faulkner was born in Mississippi, . Là Novelist, whose Zodiac is Libra, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Rooster. William Faulkner's global rank is 23236 and whose rank is 88 in list of famous Novelist.
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Events in 1897 and 25-9

Birthday William Faulkner (25-9) in history

  • Day 25-9 year 1775: Revolutionary Ethan Allen was captured by the British.
  • Day 25-9 year 1789: The first Congress adopted 12 amendments to the Constitution and sent them to the states for ratification. The first ten became the Bill of Rights.
  • Day 25-9 year 1890: Wilford Woodruff, president of the Mormon church, renounced the practice of polygamy. This paved the way for Utah's acceptance as a state in 1896.
  • Day 25-9 year 1957: Nine black teenagers, now known as the Little Rock Nine, challenged racial segregation by attending the all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas.
  • Day 25-9 year 1981: Sandra Day O'Connor was sworn in as the first female justice on the Supreme Court.
  • Day 25-9 year 2003: It was reported that more than 14,000 had lost their lives in France in a summer heat wave.
  • Day 25-9 year 2011: King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia grants women the right to vote and run for office in future elections.
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