Writer

William Faulkner

1897 – 1962

Active years (films on this site)

1946–1958

Genres

DramaCrimeFilm-NoirActionAdventure

Schools and movements

Classical HollywoodNew Hollywood

Directors worked with

Howard Hawks1 filmDouglas Sirk1 filmMartin Ritt1 film

Biography

William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer. He is best known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, a stand-in for Lafayette County where he spent most of his life. Winner of the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature, Faulkner is one of the most celebrated writers of American literature, often considered the greatest writer of Southern literature and regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century.

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Awards and honours

International

• Nobel Prize in Literature 1949
• Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres

National / local

• O. Henry Award 1939
• William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters 1950
• National Book Award 1951
• National Book Award 1955
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1955
• Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1963

3 films on this site

1. The Big Sleep 1946 · Howard Hawks · IMDb 7.9 · Writer
2. The Tarnished Angels 1957 · Douglas Sirk · IMDb 7.1 · Writer
3. The Long, Hot Summer 1958 · Martin Ritt · IMDb 7.3 · Writer