Facts about William Faulkner's Works
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A Fable, set during World War I and featuring a Christ-like corporal who leads a mutiny, won Faulkner both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award in 1955.
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Go Down, Moses, published in 1942, comprises seven interconnected short stories spanning over a century of a Mississippi family's relationship with slavery, land ownership, and racial legacy.
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Intruder in the Dust, published in 1948, centers on a sixteen-year-old boy named Chick Mallison who attempts to prove the innocence of an elderly Black man falsely accused of murder in Jefferson, Mississippi.
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The Sound and the Fury's 1929 narrative structure cycles through four different dates and perspectives, with the first section told entirely by Benjy Compson, a 33-year-old man with an intellectual disability.
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Sanctuary, published in 1931, shocked readers with its depiction of rape and violence, becoming Faulkner's first commercial success despite initial critical condemnation.
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Light in August, published in 1932, spans roughly three months and weaves together the intersecting lives of Joe Christmas, Lena Grove, and Reverend Gail Hightower in Jefferson, Mississippi.
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Faulkner's 1936 novel Absalom, Absalom! was written in just six weeks during a creative burst while he worked as a screenwriter in Hollywood.
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As I Lay Dying, published in 1930, unfolds across 59 interior monologues from 15 different characters over just nine days following Addie Bundren's death.
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Absalom, Absalom! employs a nonlinear narrative structure across 378 pages, requiring readers to piece together the Sutpen family saga from four different perspectives spanning 1807 to 1910.
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The 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature went to William Faulkner for his novels set in fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi.