Initially rejected for its length, Flags in the Dust was shortened, renamed Sartoris, and published early in 1929. By that time, Faulkner had already completed his next work, The Sound and the Fury. It too was rejected at first, but, unlike Sartoris, was published later that same year without extensive revision. On the heels of The Sound and the Fury came As I Lay Dying (1930) and Sanctuary (1931). Meanwhile, Faulkner began working as a Hollywood screenwriter, producing scripts for such films as To Have and Have Not (1945), an adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s novel, and The Big Sleep (1946), based upon the Raymond Chandler detective story, both of which starred Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. Ultimately Faulkner’s prolific literary career spanned almost 40 years, during which he authored other distinguished novels, such as Light in August (1932) and Absalom, Absalom! (1936). He won both the Nobel Prize for Literature (1950) and the Pulitzer Prize for A Fable (1954) and The Reivers (1963). Perhaps Faulkner’s best-known work, The Sound and the Fury is often regarded as his most important novel in light of its many literary innovations. In addition to employing a bold experimental style, it captures the pathos of a period of decline in Southern plantation history.
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