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Faulkner House Books
Faulkner House Books
Faulkner House Books
Faulkner House Books
Faulkner House Books
Faulkner House Books
Faulkner House Books
Faulkner House Books
Faulkner House Books
Faulkner House Books
Faulkner House Books
Faulkner House Books
Faulkner House Books
Faulkner House Books
Faulkner House Books
Faulkner House Books
Faulkner House Books
Faulkner House Books
Faulkner House Books
Faulkner House Books
Faulkner House Books
Faulkner House Books
Faulkner House Books
Faulkner House Books
Faulkner House Books
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Monday10am - 5:30pm
Tuesday10am - 5:30pm
Wednesday10am - 5:30pm
Thursday10am - 5:30pm
Friday10am - 5:30pm
Saturday10am - 5:30pm


William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer and Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner wrote novels, short stories, screenplays, poetry, essays, and a play. He is primarily known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where he spent most of his life.Faulkner is one of the most celebrated writers in American literature generally and Southern literature specifically. Though his work was published as early as 1919, and largely during the 1920s and 1930s, Faulkner was not widely known until receiving the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature, for which he became the only Mississippi-born Nobel winner. Two of his works, A Fable and his last novel The Reivers , won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked his 1929 novel The Sound and the Fury sixth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century; also on the list were As I Lay Dying and Light in August . Absalom, Absalom! appears on similar lists. His first published story, A Rose for Emily, is one of the most famous an American has written.
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