William Faulkner
Born
in New Albany, Mississippi, The United States
September 25, 1897
Died
July 06, 1962
Genre
Influences
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The Sound and the Fury
712 editions
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1929
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As I Lay Dying
507 editions
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1930
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Light in August
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376 editions
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published
1932
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Absalom, Absalom!
305 editions
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published
1936
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A Rose for Emily and Other Stories
65 editions
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1930
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Sanctuary
343 editions
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published
1931
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A Rose for Emily
68 editions
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published
1930
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Go Down, Moses
166 editions
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published
1942
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Collected Stories
128 editions
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published
1950
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The Reivers
215 editions
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published
1962
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“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
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Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
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“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
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Polls
April 2015 New School Classic Group Read
What book should we read for our April 2015 New School Classic group read?
What book should we read for our April 2015 New School Classic group read?
1920, The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, 305 pages
1982, Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally, 429 pages
1957, The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, 320 pages
1939, And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie, 264 pages
1954, 100 Selected Poems by E.E. Cummings, 128 pages
1952, Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor, 236 pages
1931, Light in August by William Faulkner, 507 pages
1903, The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler, 320 pages
1988, Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler, 350 pages
1949, The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles, 342 pages
1921, The Black Moth by Georgette Heyer, 274 pages
1996, Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt, 432 pages
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