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The Sound and the Fury

by William Faulkner

Nobel Prize · 1949 · Winner
Literary FictionISBN 9781551998527

Award History

AwardYearStatus
Nobel Prize in Literature1949Winner

About This Book

For his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern american novel

About the Author

William Faulkner (1897-1962) was an American writer best known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, including The Sound and the Fury (1929), As I Lay Dying (1930), and Absalom, Absalom! (1936). He won the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel, as well as two Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction.

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