William Faulkner Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
William Cuthbert Faulkner (/ˈfɔːknər/, September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer and Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner wrote novels, short stories, a play, poetry, essays and screenplays. He is primarily known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where he spent most of his life.Faulkner is one of the most celebrated writers in American literature generally and Southern literature specifically. Though his work was published as early as 1919, and largely during the 1920s and 1930s, Faulkner was relatively unknown until receiving the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature. Two of his works, A Fable (1954) and his last novel The Reivers (1962), won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked his 1929 novel The Sound and the Fury sixth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century; also on the list were As I Lay Dying (1930) and Light in August (1932). Absalom, Absalom! (1936) is often included on similar lists.
September 25, 1897, New Albany, Mississippi, United States
Died
July 6, 1962, Byhalia, Mississippi, United States
Place Of Birth
New Albany, Mississippi, USA
Height
5' 5½" (1.66 m)
Profession
Writer
Education
University of Mississippi, University of Virginia, Oxford High School
Nationality
American
Spouse
Estelle Oldham
Children
Jill Faulkner
Parents
Maud Butler, Murry Cuthbert Falkner
Siblings
John Faulkner, Dean Swift Faulkner, Murry Charles "Jack" Faulkner
Awards
Nobel Prize in Literature, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, National Book Award for Fiction, American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Fiction
Nominations
Coretta Scott King Award for Authors, Lucille Lortel Award for Outstanding Play
Movies
As I Lay Dying, The Long, Hot Summer, The Big Sleep
Star Sign
Libra
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Quote
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It's not Hollywood's fault. The writer is not accustomed to money. It goes to his head and destroys him.
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Hollywood is a place where a man can get stabbed in the back while climbing a ladder.
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I'm just a farmer who likes to tell stories.
4
Gratitude is a quality similar to electricity: it must be produced and discharged and used up in order to exist at all . . . Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
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Fact
1
Was close friends with his publisher, Random House owner Bennett Cerf. When introduced to Cerf's wife, Phyllis Fraser, Faulkner greeted her as "Miss Phyllis" and called her that forever after.
2
Once worked as a house painter.
3
His favorite TV show was Car 54, Where Are You? (1961). Though he despised television, he reportedly would visit a friend's house on Saturday nights to watch the cop comedy.
4
Director Howard Hawks related once how he took Faulkner and Clark Gable along with him on a hunting trip. Hawks was friends with both, but neither Faulkner nor Gable knew each other and Hawks didn't tell either one who the other was. During the trip the conversation turned to writers, and Gable asked Faulkner who he thought are the best writers. Faulkner replied, Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, Thomas Mann and myself." Gable said, "Oh, do you write, Mr. Faulkner?" Faulkner replied, "Yes. And what do you do, Mr. Gable?".
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A legendary, but possibly apocryphal, story about Faulkner relates how, after he had been hired by 20th Century-Fox as a screenwriter, he had been sitting around the Fox writers building for a few weeks without having done anything. A producer who had seen him wandering around the building asked what he was doing, and Faulkner replied that he had nothing to do. The producer asked if he had any ideas for a story. Faulkner replied that he had, but he would be better able to write it at home rather than in the Writers Building. The producer told him it was OK to go home, assuming that Faulkner meant the home in Hollywood that the studio was renting for him. A few days later the producer got a call from Faulkner, who had indeed gone home--to Oxford, Mississippi.
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A short story by Faulkner, "Two Soldiers", which was originally published in The Saturday Evening Post (1942), was made into a short film directed by Aaron Schneider. The film went on to win a 2004 Oscar for Best Short Film, (Live Action). It is a poignant tale of brotherhood and the sacrifices of family ties American Soldiers must make for war.
Pictured on a 22¢ US commemorative postage stamp in the Literary Arts series, issued 3 August 1987.
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Interred at Saint Peter's Cemetery, Oxford, Mississippi.
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Though Faulkner wrote well over one hundred short stories, only one of them, "Golden Land, " is set in Hollywood.
12
His screenplay for Ernest Hemingway's novel To Have and Have Not (1944) marks the only time in film history that two Nobel Prize-winning authors were associated with the same motion picture.
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The character of the alcoholic Southern novelist-turned screenwriter W. P. Mayhew in the movie Barton Fink (1991) is based loosely on Faulkner.
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Born at 11:0pm-CST
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Was awarded the 1949 Nobel prize in literature.
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Intruder in the Dust
2017
written by pre-production
Mississippi Requiem
based on the short stories by post-production
The Sound and the Fury
2014
novel
As I Lay Dying
2013
based on a novel by
The Sound and the Fury
2009
novel
The Lonliness Trilogy
2008
Short book story "The Sound and the Fury"
Two Soldiers
2003
Short short story
Old Man
1997
TV Movie novel "The Wild Palms"
Kaki bakar
1995
story
Moi, général de Gaulle
1990
TV Movie story
Tales from the Hollywood Hills: Golden Land
1988
TV Movie story
Two Soldiers
1985
Short story
The Long Hot Summer
1985
TV Movie stories Barn Burning, The Spotted Horses - novel "The Hamlet"
A Rose for Emily
1983
Short writer
The Bear
1980
Video short original story
Barn Burning
1980
TV Short story
Estudio 1
1977
TV Series story - 1 episode
Requiem for a Nun
1975
TV Movie novel
Tomorrow
1972
story
The Reivers
1969
novel
The Long, Hot Summer
1965-1966
TV Series stories - 27 episodes
Requiem für eine Nonne
1965
TV Movie play
Vacation Playhouse
1964
TV Series story - 1 episode
Sanctuary
1961
novels "Sanctuary" and "Requiem for a Nun" - uncredited
General Electric Theater
1960
TV Series story - 1 episode
Playhouse 90
TV Series story - 1 episode, 1960 novel - 1 episode, 1958
The Sound and the Fury
1959
novel
The Long, Hot Summer
1958
novella "Spotted Horses" - short story "Barn Burning", novel "The Hamlet"
The Tarnished Angels
1957
novel "Pylon"
Lux Video Theatre
TV Series writer - 2 episodes, 1953 - 1954 original screenplay - 1 episode, 1957
Camera Three
1956
TV Series story - 1 episode
Cheyenne
1956
TV Series screenplay - 1 episode
Playwrights '56
1955
TV Series novel - 1 episode
Climax!
TV Series story "Knight's Gambit" - 1 episode, 1955 story - 1 episode, 1954
Land of the Pharaohs
1955
written by
Suspense
1954
TV Series story - 2 episodes
Fireside Theatre
1952
TV Series story - 1 episode
Intruder in the Dust
1949
novel
Adventures of Don Juan
1948
uncredited
Deep Valley
1947
uncredited
The Big Sleep
1946
screen play
Mildred Pierce
1945
contract writer - uncredited
The Southerner
1945
uncredited
God Is My Co-Pilot
1945
uncredited
To Have and Have Not
1944
screen play
Northern Pursuit
1943
uncredited
Background to Danger
1943
uncredited
Air Force
1943
contributor to screenplay - uncredited
Drums Along the Mohawk
1939
contributor - uncredited
Gunga Din
1939
contributing writer - uncredited
Submarine Patrol
1938
script, 1936
Four Men and a Prayer
1938
uncredited
Slave Ship
1937
story
The Road to Glory
1936
screenplay
Lazy River
1934
dialogue - uncredited
The Story of Temple Drake
1933
novel "Sanctuary"
Today We Live
1933
dialogue / story "Turn About"
Flesh
1932
uncredited
Thanks
Title
Year
Status
Character
Sling Blade
1996
special thanks
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Omnibus
1952
TV Series
Himself
Won Awards
Year
Award
Ceremony
Nomination
Movie
1949
Nobel Prize in Literature
Nobel Prize
"for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel"