William Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949 and the Pulitzer Prize for The Reivers just before his death in July 1962. During the 1930s, he worked in Hollywood on film scripts, notably The Blue Lamp, co-written with Raymond Chandler. As I Lay Dying (1930), Sanctuary (1931), Light in August (1932), Absalom, Absalom! (1936) and The Wild Palms (1939) are the key works of his great creative period leading up to Intruder in the Dust (1948). His first book of verse and early novels followed, but his major work began with the publication of The Sound and the Fury in 1929. His first poem was published in The New Republic in 1919. Returning home, he studied at the University of Mississippi and visited Europe briefly in 1925. Rejected by the US military in 1915, he joined the Canadian flyers with the RAF, but was still in training when the war ended.
He grew up in Oxford, Mississippi, and left high school at fifteen to work in his grandfather's bank. Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1950 and France’s Legion of Honor in 1951. Born in 1897 in New Albany, Mississippi, William Faulkner was the son of a family proud of their prominent role in the history of the south. One of the towering figures of American literature, he is the author of The Sound and the Fury, Absalom, Absalom, and As I Lay Dying, among many other remarkablebooks.
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