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	William Faulkner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Faulkner was known for using long, serpentine sentences and meticulously chosen diction, in stark contrast to the minimalist style of his longtime rival, Ernest Hemingway.
		Faulkner was rather famous for drinking as well, and throughout his life was known to be an alcoholic.
		Faulkner served as Writer-in-Residence at the University of Virginia from 1957 until his death in 1962 of a heart attack.
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	William Faulkner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		William Faulkner reads from his story "The Old Man." This excerpt includes a dizzying range of plot elements, including a fleeing convict who is guiding a boat over the flooding Mississippi; on board is a pregnant woman about to give birth.
		Faulkner was born in Mississippi in 1897 and set many of his stories along the river in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County.
		William Faulkner reads an excerpt from his novel "A Fable." Faulkner was the scion of an old Mississippi family, and drew from his personal and family history for his work.
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	UVa Special Collections Library: Collections
		William Faulkner's choice of a repository for the major manuscripts and personal papers in his possession at the time of his death was the University of Virginia.
		Faulkner's extant papers run to thousands of pages, comprising holograph manuscripts, ribbon and carbon typescripts, corrected and uncorrected galley and page proofs, notes, foul papers, outlines, preliminary and revised drafts, all in varying combinations, for nearly every novel and short story.
		By the terms of the agreement by which the William Faulkner Foundation transferred the original manuscripts to the University, access to the original manuscripts is restricted (to ensure the survival of the physically-delicate originals) to doctoral candidates at the dissertation stage of their programs, and to certain mature scholars and critics.
	www.lib.virginia.edu /small/collections/faulkner (1297 words)

	AllRefer.com - William Faulkner (American Literature, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Faulkner trained in Canada as a cadet pilot in the Royal Air Force in 1918, attended the Univ. of Mississippi in 1919–20, and lived in Paris briefly in 1925.
		The county is a microcosm of the South as a whole, and Faulkner's novels examine the effects of the dissolution of traditional values and authority on all levels of Southern society.
		The master of a rhetorical, highly symbolic style, Faulkner was also a brilliant literary technician, making frequent use of convoluted time sequences and of the stream of consciousness technique.
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	Faulkner
		William Faulkner (1897-1962), a major figure of contemporary American literature, wrote novels and short stories combining stream-of-consciousness narrative with linguistic innovations and vivid characterization.
		Faulkner's principal setting is Yoknapatawpha County, a fictional domain loosely based upon places and subjects near to him in his youth.
		Faulkner grew up surrounded by traditional lore--family and regional stories, rural folk wisdom and humor, heroic and tragic accounts of the War Between the States, and tales of the hunting code and the Southern gentleman's ideal of conduct.
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	Square Books -- William Faulkner
		William Cuthbert Faulkner's forebears first came into Northeast Mississippi about the same time--circa 1840--the town of Oxford and, a few years later, the University of Mississippi were founded.
		This history presented a variety of colorful incidents and people who would appear in somewhat altered forms as events and characters in William Faulkner's literature, as was the case with the "Old Colonel," William Clark Falkner, William Faulkner's great-grandfather, dead for eight years at the time William Cuthbert Faulkner was born, September 25, 1897.
		Faulkner's writing aspirations were also no doubt influenced by his great-grandfather William Clark Falkner, who wrote, in serial form for the Ripley Advertiser, The White Rose of Memphis, and Rapid Ramblings in Europe.
	www.squarebooks.com /faulkner/index.php (602 words)

	ArtandCulture Artist: William Faulkner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Considered one of the most important Modernist writers, William Faulkner is known for his searing excavations into the core of the pain, pride, and prejudices of the antebellum South.
		Faulkner’s obsession with Southern mythology may stem from his family history; his grandfather was a Civil War hero-cum-railroad baron who was killed by a business rival in 1889.
		Written to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Faulkner's birth, this insightful biography by J. Peder Zane is a must-read work that delves beneath the biographical surface to examine and encapsulate the spirit of this author's life and work.
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	William Faulkner
		Faulkner lived most of his life in the town, which he called "a little postage stamp of native soil," a village of unpaved streets with a population of 1500 people.
		Faulkner experimented with various methods of narration, using page-long sentences and forcing the reader to hold in mind details and phrases that are meaningful only at the end of the story.
		One of Faulkner's primary themes is the abuse of fls by the Southern whites.
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	William Faulkner Nobel Prizewinner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The human drama in Faulkner's novels is then built on the model of the actual, historical drama extending over almost a century and a half Each story and each novel contributes to the construction of a whole, which is the imaginary Yoknapatawpha County and its inhabitants.
		Faulkner's most outspoken moral evaluation of the relationship and the problems between Negroes and whites is to be found in Intruder In the Dust (1948).
		In 1940, Faulkner published the first volume of the Snopes trilogy, The Hamlet, to be followed by two volumes, The Town (1957) and The Mansion (1959), all of them tracing the rise of the insidious Snopes family to positions of power and wealth in the community.
	www.literature-awards.com /nobelprize_winners/william_faulkner_nobel_prize.htm (502 words)

	William Faulkner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949.
		William Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi, as the oldest of four sons of Murray Charles Faulkner and Maud (Butler) Faulkner.
		Faulkner cooperated with Hawks among others in the films To Have and Have Not (1944), based freely on Ernest Hemingway's novel, and The Big Sleep (1946), based on Raymond Chandler's novel.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /faulkner.htm (2018 words)

	Heath Anthology of American LiteratureWilliam Faulkner - Author Page
		William was born in New Albany, Mississippi, but the family soon moved to nearby Oxford, where Faulkner would spend most of his life.
		Faulkner wrote this book thinking of a little girl with muddy drawers climbing a pear tree to look in on her grandmother’s body lying in state in the parlor, thereby finding a metaphor for the narrative of the fall of a proud southern family.
		Faulkner experimented with counterpoint in The Wild Palms (1939), alternating chapters of two discrete narratives, one concerning a convict’s efforts to bring a woman and her baby safely out of a Mississippi flood, the other focusing on a tragic and adulterous love affair.
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	little blue light - William Faulkner
		Faulkner was the eldest son of an established old southern family in Oxford, Mississippi and was raised in the genteel manner (riding pony and all) aimed to produce a fine southern gentleman.
		Faulkner's prose is often dense and complex but he manages to provide each character's narratives with a voice that possesses a unique rhythm and vivid psychological portrait of the character's concerns and biases.
		Faulkner made extensive use of the stream of conscious technique, a pure steam of words, apparently formless, but calculated to present a more intimate and vital depiction of characters and themes in a novel.
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	William Faulkner, a writer from Oxford, Mississippi, and author of The Sound and the Fury
		William Faulkner is recognized as one of America's greatest novelists and short story writers of the 20th century.
		Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi, on September, 25, 1897.
		Book called William Faulkner and Southern History by one of America's most acclaimed historians of the South, Joel Williamson, weaves together a perceptive biography of Faulkner himself, an astute analysis of his works, and a revealing history of Faulkner's ancestors in Mississippi.
	www.shs.starkville.k12.ms.us /mswm/MSWritersAndMusicians/writers/Faulkner.html (2539 words)

	UNF Library Subject Guide: William Faulkner
		William Cuthbert Faulkner is renowned as one of the greatest novelists of the twentieth century.
		Faulkner's mythical Yoknapatawpha County serves as the locale for many of his stories and is so well known both in print and in motion pictures as to deserve a real place on the map.
		Faulkner chose the University of Virginia as the repository for manuscripts and papers in his possession at the time of his death.
	www.unf.edu /library/guides/faulkner.html (3908 words)

	MWP: William Faulkner (1897-1962)
		William Cuthbert Falkner (as his name was then spelled) was born on September 25, 1897, in New Albany, Mississippi, the first of four sons born to Murry and Maud Butler Falkner.
		From February to June 1957, Faulkner was writer-in-residence at the University of Virginia and agreed to a number of question-and-answer sessions with the students, faculty, and faculty spouses.
		William Faulkner was dead of a heart attack at the age of 64.
	www.olemiss.edu /depts/english/ms-writers/dir/faulkner_william (7140 words)

	William Faulkner
		Faulkner examines the changing relationship of fl to white and of man to the land, and weaves a complex work that is rich in understanding of the human condition.
		William Faulkner's fictional chronicle of Yoknapatawpha County culminates in his three last novels, rich with the history and lore of the domain where he set most of his novels and stories.
		William Faulkner A to Z is the first comprehensive reference to his life, including writings, characters, people, events, and ideas that influenced him as a person and a writer.
	www.owp.us /WilliamFaulkner.asp (8130 words)

	MWP: William Faulkner (1897-1962) ~ Publications
		Screenplay by William Faulkner, Leigh Brackette, and Jules Furthman.
		William Faulkner: Novels, 1930-1935: As I Lay Dying, Sanctuary, Light in August, Pylon.
		For more information on Faulkner's works, including commentaries, additional resources, and bibliographies of criticism on individual titles, visit The Library section of William Faulkner on the Web.
	www.olemiss.edu /mwp/dir/faulkner_william/pubs.html (612 words)

	Threepenny: Marías, Faulkner
		Jill was not the first daughter Faulkner had with his wife, Estelle, who brought with her two children from a previous marriage.
		Her mother was still weak and in bed; Faulkner's brothers were out of town at the time and never saw the child.
		Faulkner could see no point in holding a funeral, since in those five days the little girl had only had time to become a memory, not a person.
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	William Faulkner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Forty years later in 2002, Faulkner’s literary reputation remains as high as it was at his death, perhaps higher.
		The year of Faulkner’s death, after all, was also the year of the Cuban Missile Crisis, when President Kennedy brought the nation to the brink of nuclear war with the Soviets.
		For readers in 2002, Faulkner’s literary reputation probably owes a good deal less to his loyal defense of the American Way than to the lessons we can learn from his penetrating, tough-minded criticisms of his native land.
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	PAL: William Faulkner (1897-1962)
		Today he is regarded as an important interpreter of the universal theme of "the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself." He grew up in Oxford, Mississippi, which became the prototype of Jefferson, in the mythical county of Yoknapatawpha, the setting of many of his works.
		Faulkner's Haunted House: The Figure of the Recluse in 'Light in August' and 'Absolom, Absolom!
		Discuss the ways in which Faulkner uses Miss Emily's house as an appropriate setting and as a metaphor for both her and the themes established by the narrative.
	www.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap7/faulkner.html (988 words)

	William Faulkner on the Web
		Focusing on the theme “Global Faulkner,” the 33rd Annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference is scheduled to be held at the University of Mississippi July 23-27, 2006.
		William Faulkner: Novels, 1926-1929 will include scholarly editions of Faulkner’s first four novels, Soldiers’ Pay, Mosquitoes, Flags in the Dust, and The Sound and the Fury, as edited by Faulkner scholar Noel Polk.
		This fifth volume by the Library of America completes the series encompassing all of Faulkner's novels which began in 1985 with the publication of Novels, 1930-1935.
	www.mcsr.olemiss.edu /~egjbp/faulkner/faulkner.html (602 words)

	William Faulkner: Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
		"All his life William Faulkner had avoided speeches, and insisted that he not be taken as a man of letters.
		Because of his known aversion to making formal pronouncements, there was much interest, when he traveled to Stockholm to receive the prize on December 10, 1950, in what he would say in the speech that custom obliged him to deliver.
		Faulkner evidently wanted to set right the misinterpretation of his own work as pessimistic.
	www.rjgeib.com /thoughts/faulkner/faulkner.html (561 words)

	William Faulkner - Wikiquote
		William Cuthbert Faulkner (25 September 1897 - 6 July 1962) American novelist
		It might have been all time and injustice and sorrow become vocal for an instant by a conjunction of planets.
		William Faulkner at the official site of the Nobel Prizes
	en.wikiquote.org /wiki/William_Faulkner (1355 words)

	Amazon.com: Collected Stories (Vintage International): Books: William Faulkner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This magisterial collection of short works by Nobel Prize-winning author William Faulkner reminds readers of his ability to compress his epic vision into narratives as hard and wounding as bullets.
		I do enjoy Faulkner's novels and have read quite a few, but this collection of short stories is just brilliant beyond brilliant.
		faulkner is one of the most brillant writers a rose for ms emly is by and far the best ever
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	Amazon.com: William Faulkner: Books: Irving Howe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Cambridge Companion to William Faulkner (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Philip M. Weinstein
		William Faulkner A to Z: The Essential Reference to His Life and Work (Literary a to Z Series) by A.
		William Faulkner: The Yoknapatawpha Country by Cleanth Brooks
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0929587693?v=glance (542 words)

	Welcome to Faulkner House
		The Faulkner House is located two blocks from the Mississippi, immediately adjacent to St. Louis Cathedral and immediately behind The Cabildo, the seat of Spanish colonial government in Louisiana.
		The Faulkner Society's semi-formal summer fundraiser honors important writers and features exceptional cuisine by great New Orleans chefs as well as mint juleps of several varieties served, observing the time-honored tradition, in silver julep cups.
		The Hotel Monteleone was William Faulkner's favorite hotel in New Orleans and is a National Literary Landmark.
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