William Faulkner (1897–1962) was an American novelist and Nobel Laureate, born in New Albany, Mississippi. He spent most of his life in Oxford, Mississippi, a region that profoundly shaped his literary vision. Faulkner is best known for his complex portrayals of the American South, especially through the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, which serves as the setting for many of his novels.
His early works, including The Sound and the Fury (1929) and As I Lay Dying (1930), gained critical acclaim for their experimental style and psychological depth. Faulkner won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949 for his powerful and innovative contribution to the modern novel. He also received two Pulitzer Prizes for A Fable (1954) and The Reivers (1962).
