Faulkner
William, 1897–1962, U.S. novelist and short-story writer. Nobel Prize 1949.
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Really simply, the concept was to pay homage to the strain in American literature of literate writing about the out of doors—from John Fenimore Cooper through Mark Twain through Hemingway and Faulkner.
Tim Cahill Is an Outside Legend. Thank Goodness He Didn’t Die. | jversteegh | December 28, 2021 | Outside OnlineThe other thing I’ll say, and I’ve said this before, now there’s a saying that’s attributed to Mark Twain, that Faulkner’s music was better than it sounded.
An old axiom, drawn from a Faulkner novel and restated in a speech by then-Sen.
It’s astounding that HBO’s new docuseries Exterminate All the Brutes even exists | Alissa Wilkinson | April 9, 2021 | VoxCommunities from Faulkner, Maryland, to Velva, North Dakota, were grappling with the consequences of coal ash.
Faulkner, Whitman, and Dickinson did not labor in vain; their books live on, horizontally, stacked like bricks in a display case.
A Teacher Returns to the Classroom and Gets Schooled | Nick Romeo | September 1, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
And The Long Way Back, the 1980 novel by Iraqi writer Fuad al-Takarli, is clearly influenced by William Faulkner.
'Fives and Twenty-Fives' Is Fiction Honed in a Combat Zone | Brian Castner | August 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut contra William Faulkner, there are signs that the past is finally becoming past.
Whatever else they were, García Márquez and Faulkner were both great storytellers.
García Márquez Showed Us How Great Fiction Could Be | Malcolm Jones | April 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTLike his idol William Faulkner, García Márquez gets a lot of credit for literary experiments and narrative breakthroughs.
García Márquez Showed Us How Great Fiction Could Be | Malcolm Jones | April 18, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTMr. Faulkner withdrew from the case and Mr. Lawson Botts took his place.
The Raid of John Brown at Harper's Ferry as I Saw It | Rev. Samuel Vanderlip LeechCaptain Faulkner on this, suspecting them to be enemies, immediately made sail in chase, and kept them in sight all night.
How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves | W.H.G. KingstonThe tears stood in Mrs. Appleby's kind eyes, and even Mrs. Faulkner's severity was perceptibly abated.
Pippin; A Wandering Flame | Laura E. RichardsMrs. Faulkner bent severe brows on him, and Pippin reflected what a blessing it was Mrs. Baxter didn't ever look like that.
Pippin; A Wandering Flame | Laura E. RichardsSergeant Faulkner, who had just come back, after recovering from his second wound, for his final one that morning.
Into the Jaws of Death | Jack O'Brien
British Dictionary definitions for Faulkner
Falkner
/ (ˈfɔːknə) /
William. 1897–1962, US novelist and short-story writer. Most of his works portray the problems of the southern US, esp the novels set in the imaginary county of Yoknapatawpha in Mississippi. Other novels include The Sound and the Fury (1929) and Light in August (1932): Nobel prize for literature 1949
Derived forms of Faulkner
- Faulknerian (fɔːkˈnɪərɪən), adjective
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