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William Faulkner: A Literary Life in Yoknapatawpha


Episode 701


The source provides a comprehensive biographical and critical account of celebrated American writer William Faulkner, outlining his life from his birth in Mississippi to his death in 1962. It details his formative years, including a brief, non-combat service in the Royal Canadian Air Force and his early rejection of traditional schooling to pursue writing. The text emphasizes his most influential works, such as The Sound and the Fury and Light in August, which are famously set in his meticulously constructed fictional region, Yoknapatawpha County. The overview also documents his awards, most notably the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949 and two Pulitzer Prizes, and addresses the periods where he worked as a screenwriter in Hollywood to generate necessary income. Furthermore, the information discusses his experimental, modernist use of stream of consciousness and his significant, enduring legacy in global literature, particularly among Southern and Latin American writers.


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