Facts about William Faulkner

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   Absalom, Absalom!, published in 1936, took Faulkner seven years to write and features a narrative structure spanning 438 pages told through five different perspectives across multiple time periods.

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   Born in New Albany, Mississippi in 1897, William Faulkner spent most of his life in Oxford, Mississippi, which inspired his fictional Yoknapatawpha setting.

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   The Sound and the Fury, widely considered William Faulkner's masterpiece, employs stream-of-consciousness narration across four distinct sections with four different narrators.

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   Faulkner's 1950 Nobel Prize acceptance speech, delivered in Stockholm, became one of literature's most famous addresses despite lasting only 506 words.

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   During the 1930s, Faulkner worked as a screenwriter in Hollywood for MGM, earning $300 weekly while simultaneously writing his most celebrated novels.

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   In 1949, William Faulkner won the Nobel Prize in Literature at age 51 for his novels set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi.

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