William Faulkner – 20th-century American novelist, author of The Sound and the Fury and Light in August, Nobel Prize laureate (1949). His experimental style and fictional Yoknapatawpha County made him a modernist classic. His works explored memory, time, and the tragic legacy of the American South.
📖 Faulkner invented Yoknapatawpha County, the setting for most of his novels. 🏆 Twice awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. ✍️ His fragmented, multi-voiced narratives were groundbreaking. 🎬 Worked as a Hollywood screenwriter, including for Warner Bros. 📚 Influenced by Joyce and Woolf, but forged a uniquely Southern voice. 🏠 Lived most of his life in Oxford, Mississippi. 🕰 His novels often portray the past as a burden on the present. 💌 Letters show he disliked fame and valued solitude. 🚬 A heavy smoker, he also drank whiskey daily. 👨🎓 Attended the University of Mississippi for less than a year. 🐎 Passionate about horses, even trained jockeys. 😂 Curiosity: once “lost” his Nobel medal in a bar. 😄 Amusing fact: often wrote at night in a stable next to horses.