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William Faulkner (William Cuthbert Falkner)
September 25, 1897 to July 6, 1962
Born in New Albany, Mississippi & Died in Byhalia, Mississippi
Author of novels, short stories, and screenplays and winner of the Nobel Prize for literature. Copies of his books are usually pristine because very few people get past the first chapter - many of those who do read the second chapter become annoyingly insistent that everyone should acknowledge the genius of William Faulkner. (That last part may just be my personal experience.)
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'It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past.'
Off-Site Resource
William Faulkner Entry On The Mississippi Writer's Page
Bibliography
Novels
Soldier's Pay - 1926
Mosquitoes - 1927
Sartoris - 1929
The Sound and the Fury - 1929
As I Lay Dying - 1930
Sanctuary - 1931
Light in August - 1932
Pylon - 1935
Absalom, Absalom - 1936
The Unvanquished - 1938
The Wild Palms - 1939 (AKA If I Forget thee Jerusalem)
The Hamlet: A Novel of the Snopes Family - 1940
Go Down, Moses - 1942
Intruder in the Dust - 1948
Requiem for a Nun - 1951
A Fable - 1954
The Town - 1957
The Mansion - 1959
The Reivers - 1962
Flags in the Dust - 1973 (complete edition of the novel originally published as Sartoris)
Short Story Collections (A Selection)
The Portable Faulkner - 1946
Collected Stories - 1950
The Faulkner Reader - 1953
Uncollected Stories - 1979
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Author Profiles
- Westlake, Donald - Bibliography
- Crane, Hart
- Pyle, Ernie
- Whitman, Walt
- Ferber, Edna
- Bowen, Elizabeth
- Barnes, Linda
- Salinger, J. D.
- Parker, Robert B.
- Thoreau, Henry David
- Miller, Henry
- Machiavelli, Niccolo
- King, Stephen
- London, Jack
- Abbey, Edward
- Asimov, Isaac
- Ballard, J. G.
- Author Index
- Morley, Christopher
- Morison, Samuel Eliot
- Ambrose, Stephen
- Hunter, Evan
- Carr, John Dickson
- Adams, Brooks
- Adams, Henry
- Adams, Richard
- Agee, James
- Alcott, Louisa May
- Anthony, Piers
- Austen, Jane
Great Quotations
- Jack London on the advantages of not being a cabbage
Author's Name Jack London Type of Quote Animals
Change"The advantage of the animal over the vegetable kingdom is obvious. The cabbage, should its environment tend to become worse, must live it out, or die; the rabbit may move on in quest of a better." - Edith Wharton on Secrets and Age
Author's Name Edith Wharton He was growing old, and beginning to need rest and an imperturbed spirit. He did not want the secrets of other lives thrust upon him. - Edith Wharton on Weddings
Author's Name Edith Wharton She says a wedding is one of the most lamentable spectacles on earth. Nice thing for a woman to say to her husband! - James Tiptree, Jr., (Alice B. Sheldon)
Anyone who shoots a real gun at you when drunk and angry is simply not husband material, regardless of his taste in literature.
- Truman Capote
Any love is natural and beautiful that lies within a person's nature; only hypocrites would hold a man responsible for what he loves.
- Jack London
"The advantage of the animal over the vegetable kingdom is obvious. The cabbage, should its environment tend to become worse, must live it out, or die; the rabbit may move on in quest of a better."
- Donald Westlake
"A gun is so clean, so impersonal. It separates you, just a bit, from the event."
- John Gregory Dunne
"Being as rich as my father had made me allowed me to nourish a small talent for irony, irony being the vehicle by which the essentially second rate arrive at some kind of superiority."
- G.K. Chesterton
"If we boast of our best, we must repent of our worst. Otherwise patriotism will be a very poor thing indeed."
- Jorge Luis Borges
"It is like two bald men fighting over a comb."
Jorge Luis Borges on the Falklands war.
- Stephen King
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