Faulkner, William

1. A twentieth-century American author. His works, mostly set in the South, include the novels The Sound and the Fury and As I Lay Dying . He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1949.

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And The Long Way Back, the 1980 novel by Iraqi writer Fuad al-Takarli, is clearly influenced by William Faulkner.

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But contra William Faulkner, there are signs that the past is finally becoming past.

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Like his idol William Faulkner, García Márquez gets a lot of credit for literary experiments and narrative breakthroughs.

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It reminded me of the story about William Faulkner and Leigh Brackett writing the screenplay for The Big Sleep.

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Someone once asked William Faulkner what he thought of the (almost uniformly wretched) film adaptations of his novels.

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