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Born 1897
Rural Mississippi
School dropout
Pilot
Poet
Illustrator
Short Story Writer
Novelist
Hollywood Screenwriter
Pulitzer Prize Winner (twice)
Nobel Laureate in Literature
Revolutionary
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FAULKNER'S MASTERWORKS

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Faulkner sets many of his stories in fictional Yoknapatawpha County.   Yoknapatawpha County is a microcosm of the human experience, with a collage of characters and impressions formed from Faulkner's "postage stamp of soil." 

A few of Faulkner's Masterpieces

Courtesy of Faulkner at Virginia (c) 2010
Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia 
Author Stephen Railton
 

The Louis Daniel Brodsky Collection,
Center For Faulkner Studies
Southeast Missouri State University 

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How to explain Faulkner's appeal to other cultures?

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 Faulkner "talks about the indomniable power of the HUMAN SPIRIT.  And that's the person, I knew ..."

Gloria Burgess, Award Winning Poet

Faulkner on Yoknapatawpha
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