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Person Detail: William Faulkner
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| Full Name: William Faulkner | ||
| Biography: (1897-1962) Writer. William Faulkner wrote novels, short stories and plays. He stayed at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City. In 1987 the United States Postal Service issued its sixth stamp in the Literary Arts series in honor of William Faulkner. |
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| 1897 |
(Unknown) County William Cuthbert Falkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi, in 1897. He changed the spelling of his name during the First World War. |
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| 1929 |
(Unknown) County The Sound and the Fury Novel. |
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| 1962 |
(Unknown) County William Faulkner died in Byhalia, Mississippi, in 1962. |
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| 1930 |
(Unknown) County As I Lay Dying Novel. |
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| 1944 |
(Unknown) County The Big Sleep Screenplay adaptation of Raymond Chandler's book. |
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| 1932 |
(Unknown) County Light in August Novel. |
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| 1936 |
(Unknown) County Absalom! Absalom! Novel. |
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| 1962 |
(Unknown) County The Reivers Novel. |
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| 1949 |
(Unknown) County Faulkner was the 1949 winner of the Nobel Prize in literature. |
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| 1931 |
(Unknown) County Sanctuary Novel. |
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| 1940 |
(Unknown) County The Hamlet Novel. |
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| 1948 |
(Unknown) County Intruder in the Dust Novel. |
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| 1951 |
(Unknown) County Requiem for a Nun Novel. |
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| 1962 |
(Unknown) County William Faulkner was interred at Saint Peter's Cemetery, Oxford, Lafayette County, Mississippi. |
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| 1962 |
Orange County Faulkner visited the US Military Academy at West Point and read from his work there less than three months before his death in 1962. |
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New York County Faulkner stayed at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City. |
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