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William Faulkner
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William Faulkner

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William Faulkner American novelist who depicted the post-Civil War American South with unprecedented psychological depth. His novels "The Sound and the Fury," "As I Lay Dying," and "Absalom, Absalom!" pioneered stream-of-consciousness narrative techniques. Nobel Prize in Literature 1949. His Yoknapatawpha County saga is one of literature's most ambitious fictional universes.

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American novelist who depicted the post-Civil War American South with unprecedented psychological depth. His novels "The Sound and the Fury," "As I Lay Dying," and "Absalom, Absalom!" pioneered stream-of-consciousness narrative techniques. Nobel Prize in Literature 1949. His Yoknapatawpha County saga is one of literature's most ambitious fictional universes.

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1890s
1897

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Born in New Albany, United States

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