| William Faulkner  AKA William Cuthbert Falkner
Born: 25-Sep-1897
Birthplace: New Albany, MS
Died: 6-Jul-1962
Location of death: Wright's Sanatorium, Byhalia, MS
Cause of death: Heart Failure
Remains: Buried, St. Peter's Cemetery, Oxford, MS
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Author Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The Sound and the Fury Military service: Royal Air Force, Canada (Lt., WWI) Father: Murray Charles Faulkner (d. 7-Aug-1932)
Mother: Maud Butler Faulkner (d. 16-Oct-1960)
Brother: Murray C. Falkner, Jr. ("Jack", b. 1899)
Brother: John Wesley Thompson Falkner III ("Johncy", b. 1901)
Brother: Dean Swift Falkner (b. 1907, d. 10-Nov-1935 airplane crash)
Wife: Estelle Oldham Franklin (m. 20-Jun-1929, until his death, two daughters)
Daughter: Alabama (b. 11-Jan-1931, d. 20-Jan-1931 at nine days old)
Daughter: Jill (b. 24-Jun-1933)
University: University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS (attended 1919-21)
Scholar: Writer-in-Residence, University of Virginia (1957-62)
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
National Book Award for Fiction 1951 for The Collected Stories
National Book Award for Fiction 1955 for A Fable
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1955 for A Fable
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1963 for The Reivers
Nobel Prize for Literature 1949
Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity
Risk Factors: Alcoholism, Depression
Author of books:
The Marble Faun (1924, poetry)
Soldier's Pay (1926)
Mosquitoes (1927)
The Sound and the Fury (1929, novel)
Sartoris (1929, novel)
As I Lay Dying (1930, novel)
Sanctuary (1931, novel)
These 13 (1931, short stories)
Idyll in the Desert (1931)
Salmagundi (1932)
Light in August (1932)
A Green Bough (1933, poetry)
Doctor Martino and Other Stories (1934, short stories)
Pylon (1935)
Absalom! Absalom! (1936, novel)
The Unvanquished (1938, novel)
The Wild Palms (1939)
The Hamlet (1940)
Go Down Moses and Other Stories (1942, short stories)
A Fable (1954, novel)
The Reivers (1962, novel)
Appears on postage stamps:
USA, Scott #2350 (22 cents, issued 3-Aug-1987)
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