William Faulkner
- January 11, 2024
- Novelist
Quick Facts
| Full Name | William Faulkner |
| Date Of Birth | Sep 25, 1897(1897-09-25) |
| Age | 127 |
| Date Of Death | 1962-07-06 |
| Birthplace | New Albany |
| Country | United States |
| Birth City | Mississippi |
| Horoscope | Virgo |
William Faulkner Biography
| Birthday | Sep 25 |
| Birth Year | 1897 |
William Faulkner is one of the most popular and richest Novelist who was born on September 25, 1897 in New Albany, Mississippi, United States. Pulitzer Prize-winning Southern Gothic writer whose best known work includes The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying as well as A Rose for Emily. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949.
He and his contemporaries, He and his contemporary, Ernest Hemingway, wrote in very different styles (Hemingway filled his work with short, declarative sentences) and intensely disliked each other. were both writers with very distinct styles (Hemingway used concise, declarative sentences) and were incredibly disliked by one another.
He was born within Mississippi in the family of 4 children of Murry Cuthbert and Maud Butler. He was married to Estelle Oldham, in the year 1929, and had numerous extramarital relationships. He had one daughter, named Jill.
William Faulkner Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Novelist |
| House | Living in own house. |
William Faulkner is one of the richest Novelist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, William Faulkner 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
He wrote his poems exclusively throughout his teens. He began work on his most famous novel, The Sound and the Fury at the age of thirty-years old.
He gained notoriety for his unique style of writing that is distinguished by lengthy, vividly descriptive sentences.
Height, Weight & Body Measurements
| Height | 5 ft 5 in |
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Who is William Faulkner Dating?
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Facts & Trivia
William Ranked on the list of most popular Novelist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. William Faulkner celebrates birthday on September 25 of every year.
What is William Faulkner best known for?
William Faulkner wrote numerous novels, screenplays, poems, and short stories. Today he is best remembered for his novels The Sound and the Fury (1929), As I Lay Dying (1930), Sanctuary (1931), and Absalom, Absalom! (1936).
Why did Faulkner win the Nobel Prize?
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1949 was awarded to William Faulkner “ for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel.” William Faulkner received his Nobel Prize one year later, in 1950.
What is Faulkner's greatest novel?
This is the first, and probably the most popular, of Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County stories, a short, dark and compelling novel set in what he called “my apocryphal county”, a fictional rendering of Lafayette County in his native Mississippi.
What themes did William Faulkner write about?
Faulkner’s themes are southern tradition, family, community, the land, history and the past, race, and the passions of ambition and love. He also created three novels focusing on the rise of a degenerate family, the Snopes clan: The Hamlet (1940), The Town (1957), and The Mansion (1959).
What Faulkner book should I start with?
I always recommend ‘ Light in August ‘ as a good place to start. It is from his great period, yet it is accessible for someone who hasn’t read Faulkner.