William Faulkner is considered by many readers to have been America's greatest modern writer. His fiction satisfies the critical demands that writing be inventive and invigorating, as ready to release the imagination as it is to channel it. Each of...

William Faulkner is considered by many readers to have been America's greatest modern writer. His fiction satisfies the critical demands that writing be inventive and invigorating, as ready to release the imagination as it is to channel it. Each of...

William Faulkner was first and foremost a novelist, and much of his achievement in the short-story form is closely related to his accomplishment as a novelist. This does not necessarily imply that his short stories are second to his novels in all...

In explaining the comic side of William Faulkner's fiction, it soon becomes apparent how indivisible it is from the tragic side and how the two are almost inextricably intertwined. Early critics who mistook Faulkner for a naturalist obviously...

William Faulkner, one of the great American novelists of the twentieth century, was also a screenwriter. The first of four brothers, he was born in New Albany, Mississippi, the son of Murry Cuthbert and Maud Butler Falkner. They were a prominent...

William Faulkner (1897-1962), a major American 20th-century novelist, chronicled the decline and decay of the aristocratic South with an imaginative power and psychological depth that transcend mere regionalism. William Faulkner was born on Sept. 25,...