Faulkner,William

Faulkner,William
Faulk·ner also Falk·ner (fôkʹnər), William. 1897-1962.
American writer who set many of his works, such as the novels The Sound and the Fury (1929) and The Unvanquished (1938), in the imaginary Yoknapatawpha County, a microcosm of the postbellum South, in which he explored the decay of traditional Southern culture. He won the 1949 Nobel Prize for literature.
  Faulk·nerʹi·an (fôk-nîrʹē-ən) adj.

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