William Faulkner (1897-1962)

Awarded the Prize “for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel.”

American novelist. Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi on September 25, 1897. He studied for a while at the University of Mississippi and in 1920 left the university without taking a degree and moved to New York City, working as a clerk in a bookstore. Except for some trips to Europe and Asia, and a few brief stays in Hollywood as a scriptwriter, he worked on his novels and short stories in a farm in Oxford, where Faulkner died on July 6, 1962.
Major Works:
The Sound and the Fury (1929); Light in August (1932); Absalom, Absalom! (1936); Intruder in the Dust (1948); The Town (1957); The Mansion (1959); The Reivers (1962)