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"A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods "All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis "Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than
in order to gain from them the right to dream." — William Faulkner
of our splendid failure to do the impossible." — William Faulkner
your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself." — William Faulkner
William Faulkner received the Nobel Prize for Literature for 1949,
a Pulitzer Prize for "A Fable" in 1955
and a Pulitzer Prize for "The Reivers" in 1962
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Wm. Faulkner's Novels
Faulkner's 'big four' novels are "The Sound and The Fury" [1929], "As I Lay Dying" [1930],
"Light In August" [1930], and "Absalom! Absalom!" [1936]
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William Faulkner: Novels 1926–1929 [2006] Edited by Joseph Blotner & Noel Polk Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [4/2006] for $26.40 includes "Soldiers' Pay" [1926], "Mosquitoes" [1927], "Flags In The Dust (Sartoris)" [1929], and his masterpiece "The Sound and The Fury" [1929] William Faulkner: Novels 1930–1935 [1985] Edited by Joseph Blotner & Noel Polk Library of America 8¼x5¼ hardcover [12/85] for $23.10 includes "As I Lay Dying" [1930], "Sanctuary" [1931], "Light In August" [1932], and "Pylon" [1935] William Faulkner: Novels 1936–1940 [1990] Edited by Joseph Blotner & Noel Polk Library of America hardcover [6/90] for $24.75 includes "Absalom, Absalom!" [1936], "The Unvanquished" [1938], "If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem" aka "The Wild Palms" [1939], and "The Hamlet" [1940] William Faulkner: Novels 1942–1954 [1994] Edited by Joseph Blotner & Noel Polk Library of America 8x5¼ hardcover [10/94] for $26.40 includes "Go Down, Moses" [1942], "Intruder In The Dust" [1948], "Requiem For A Nun" [1951], and "A Fable" [1954] William Faulkner: Novels 1957–1962 [1999] Edited by Joseph Blotner & Noel Polk Library of America hardcover [10/99] for $23.10 includes "The Town" [1957], "The Mansion" [1959], and "The Reivers: A Reminiscence" [1962] |
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"A Reader's Guide To William Faulkner: The Novels" [1975] by Edmond L. Volpe Syracuse Univ Press 8x5½ pb [2/2003] for $16.47 Octagon hardcover [1/75] out of print/used |
"Soldiers' Pay" [1926]
"Mosquitoes" [1927]
"Sartoris" / "Flags In The Dust" [1929/1973]
"The Sound and The Fury" [1929 masterpiece]
listed on Time Magazine's All-TIME 100 Novels (10/2005);
book entry at Wikipedia
"The Sound and The Fury" feature film [Fox March 1959]
Directed by Martin Ritt; script by Harriet Frank Jr. & Irving Ravetch; starring Yul Brynner, Joanne Woodward,
Margaret Leighton, Stuart Whitman, Ethel Waters, Jack Warden, John Beal & Albert Dekker;
full credits from IMDb
"As I Lay Dying" [1930]
"As I Lay Dying" [Oct 1956 episode of "Camera Three" CBS TV series]
Starring Philip Coolidge, Mildred Dunnock, Robert Lansing, Susan Oliver & Richard Shepard
video/DVD not available; full credits from IMDb
"Sanctuary" [1931]
"The Story of Temple Drake" [Paramount May 1933]
Directed by Stephen Roberts; based on the Faulkner novel "Sanctuary"; starring Miriam Hopkins,
Jack La Rue, William Gargan, William Collier Jr., Irving Pichel, Guy Standing & Elizabeth Patterson
video/DVD not available;
full credits from IMDb
"Sanctuary" [Zanuck/Fox Feb 1961]
Directed by Tony Richardson; starring Lee Remick, Yves Montand, Bradford Dillman, Harry Townes,
Odetta, Howard St. John & Strother Martin; video/DVD not available; full credits from IMDb
"Light In August" [1932]
listed on Time Magazine's All-TIME 100 Novels (10/2005)
"Pylon" [1935]
"The Tarnished Angels" [Universal Jan 1958]
Directed by Douglas Sirk; based on the Faulkner novel "Pylon"; starring Rock Hudson,
Robert Stack, Dorothy Malone & Jack Carsonfull credits from IMDb
"Absalom, Absalom!" [1936]
"The Unvanquished" [1938]
"If I Forget Thee Jerusalem" aka "The Wild Palms / Old Man" [1939]
book entry at Wikipedia
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"Las Palmeras Salvajes" [1940] Spanish-language translation by Jorge Luis Borges Edhasa 7x4½ pb [9/2004] for $18.15 Siruela 8½x5¾ hardcover [3/2003] for $53.20 |
"Old Man" [Hallmark TV movie Feb 1997]
Directed by John Kent Harrison; teleplay by Horton Foote; starring Arliss Howard & Jeanne Tripplehorn;
won Emmy for Best Script, won Humanitas Prize;
full credits from IMDb
"The Hamlet" [1940]
"Go Down, Moses" [1942]
"Intruder In The Dust" [Random House 1948]
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Set in 1948 Mississippi; a black man is found holding a smoking gun and standing next to the body of a white man, and is assumed guilty. The town's most prominent lawyer refuses to take the case for his defense, until a boy once helped by the defendent hears about plans for a lynching and pleads with the lawyer to defend the man in court.
Vintage 8x5¼ pb [10/91] for $11.16 Vintage mass pb [6/72] out of print/many,many used Random House hardcover [9/48] for $11.16 book entry at Wikipedia |
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feature film [M.G.M. Nov 1949]
Filmed on location in Oxford, Mississippi; directed by Clarence Brown; adapted by Ben Maddow from Faulkner's 1948 novel; starring David Brian, Claude Jarman Jr., Juano Hernandez, Porter Hall, Elizabeth Patterson, Charles Kemper & Will Geer; won BAFTA U.N. Award not available on DVD; MGM/Warner b&w VHS [9/98] out of prodb/used full credits from IMDb |
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"Faulkner's Intruder In The Dust: Novel Into Film" [1977] Screenplay by Ben Maddow; critical text by Regina K. Fadiman Univ TN Press pb [7/78] out of print/many used |
"Requiem For A Nun" [1951 novel]
"Requiem For A Nun (Requiem pour une Nonne)" [1956 stageplay]
adapted by Albert Camus
1958 Broadway play adapted by Faulkner from his novel
"A Fable" [1954] won the National Book Award & the Pulitzer Prize
"The Town" [1957]
"The Mansion" [1959]
"The Reivers: A Reminiscence" [1962] won the Pulitzer Prize
"The Reivers" [National General Pictures Dec 1969]
Directed by Mark Rydell; script by Harriet Frank Jr. & Irving Ravetch; starring Steve McQueen, Sharon Farrell,
Ruth White, Mitch Vogel, Michael Constantine, Clifton James, Juano Hernandez, Lonny Chapman, Will Geer, Rupert Crosse,
Diane Shalet, Pat Randall, Diane Ladd, Ellen Geer, Dub Taylor & Billy Green Bush;
full credits from IMDb
Wm. Faulkner's Short Stories
 | "A Reader's Guide To William Faulkner: The Short Stories" [2004] by Edmond L. Volpe Syracuse Univ Press pb [5/2004] for $19.95 |
"These 13" [stories 1932]
"Two Soldiers" story [The Saturday Evening Post 1942]
"Two Soldiers" short film [2003]
Directed by Aaron Schneider; won an Oscar for Best Short Film
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"Knight's Gambit: Six Mystery Stories" [1949] by Wm. Faulkner
tales starring Gavin Stevens: "Smoke" [1932]; "Monk" [1937]; "Hand Upon The Waters" [1939]; "Tomorrow" [1940]; "An Error In Chemistry" [1946]; and "Knight’s Gambit" [1949] Vintage pb [12/78] for $8.25 Random House hardcover [6/49] out of print/used |
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"Collected Stories of William Faulkner" [42 stories 1950] won the National Book Award in 1951 Vintage 7¾x5¼ pb [10/95] for $13.57 Vintage pb [1/77] out of print/used Random House hardcover [8/56] out of print/used |
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"Big Woods: The Hunting Stories" [1955]
contains four stories: "A Bear Hunt" [1934[; "The Old People" [1940]; "The Bear" [1942]; and "Race At Morning" [1955] Vintage 8x5¼ pb [4/94] for $11.01 Random House hardcover [10/55] out of print/used |
 | "Selected Short Stories of William Faulkner, 1930-1955" [1978]
Random House Modern Library 7¼x4¾ hardcover [5/93] for $12.21 contains 13 stories: "A Rose For Emily", "Barn Burning", "Beyond", "Dry September", "Honor", "Lo!", "Mountain Victory", "Race At Morning", "Red Leaves", "That Evening Sun", "There Was A Queen", "Turnabout". and "Two Soldiers" |
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"Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner" [45 stories 1979] Introduction & notes by biographer Joseph Blotner Vintage 8x5¼ pb [9/97] for $15.56 Vintage 8¼x5¼ pb [2/81] out of print/used Random House hardcover [10/79] out of print/many used |
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"Reading Faulkner: Collected Stories" [2006] Edited by Theresa M. Towner & James B. Carothers Univ Press of MS 9x6 pb [6/2006] for $25.00 Univ Press of MS 9x6 hardcover [9/2006] for $50.00 contains 42 stories: "A Bear Hunt"; "A Courtship"; "A Justice"; "A Rose For Emily"; "Ad Astra"; "All The Dead Pilots"; "Artist At Home"; "Barn Burning"; "Beyond"; "Black Music"; "The Brooch"; "Carcassonne"; "Centaur In Brass"; "Crevasse"; "Death Drag"; "Divorce In Naples"; "Dr. Martino"; "Dry September"; "Elly"; "Fox Hunt"; "Golden Land"; "Hair"; "Honor"; "The Leg"; "Lo!"; "Mistral"; "Mountain Victory"; "Mule In The Yard"; "My Grandmother Millard"; "Pennsyl- vania Station"; "Red Leaves"; "Shall Not Perish"; "Shingles For The Lord"; "That Evening Sun"; "That Will Be Fine"; "There Was A Queen"; "Two Soldiers"; "The Tall Men"; "Turnabout"; "Uncle Willy"; "Victory"; and "Wash" |
Movie Scripts by William Faulkner
William Faulkner credits at Internet Movie Database
"The Road To Glory" [Fox Aug 1936]
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In the trenches of 1916 World War I, new recruits alter relationships, including competition for the nurse's affections. Then the unit is ordered to the front to install a telephone to direct artillery.
Produced by Darryl F. Zanuck; directed by Howard Hawks; co-written by William Faulkner; cinematography by Gregg Toland; starring Fredric March, Warner Baxter, Lionel Barrymore, Gregory Ratoff & June Lang
video/DVD not available; full credits at IMDb |
"Submarine Patrol" [Fox Nov 1938]
 | A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser and with a motley crew.
Directed by John Ford; co-written by William Faulkner; starring Richard Greene, Nancy Kelly, Preston Foster, George Bancroft, Slim Summerville, Elisha Cook Jr., John Carradine, 'Slapsie Maxie' Rosenbloom & Ward Bond
video/DVD not available; full credits from IMDb |
"To Have and Have Not"
[Warner Bros./First National Oct 1944]
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On the island of Martinique just after France fell to the Germans, the local Resistance asks a world-weary fishing boat captain for help transporting freedom fighters. At first he refuses, but circumstances compel him to stand against the local Vichy thugs.
Directed by Howard Hawks; script by Leigh Brackett, William Faulkner & Jules Furthman, based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway; first film pairing of Humphrey Bogart & Lauren Bacall; also starring Walter Brennan, Dolores Moran, Hoagy Carmichael, Sheldon Leonard, Walter Szurovy & Marcel Dalio
Warner Home Video b&w keepcase DVD [7/2006] for $14.99 Warner Home Video b&w snapcase DVD [11/2003] for $17.99 Warner Home Video b&w VHS [9/98] out of prodn/used 11"x17" cream poster available for $14.99 at AllPosters.com full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia |
"The Big Sleep" [Warner Bros. Aug 1946]
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Oil magnate General Sternwood hires P.I. Philip Marlowe to stop a crooked bookseller from blackmailing Sternwood's wild daughter Carmen.
Directed by Howard Hawks; script by Leigh Brackett, William Faulkner & Jules Furthman, based on the novel by Raymond Chandler; starring Humphrey Bogart & Lauren Bacall; listed in National Film Registry 1997
Warner b&w DVD [2/2000] for $16.99 Warner 114-min. b&w 'theatrical release' VHS [3/2000] for $14.95 Warner 135-min. b&w 'pre-release version' VHS [3/2000] for $14.95 full credits from IMDb purchase 'Big Sleep' movie posters via AllPosters.com |
"Land of The Pharaohs" [Warner Bros. June 1955]
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Pharoah Khulu wants all the gold in the world, so he can take it with him into the afterlife. He makes a deal with a captive architect to build a robbery-proof pyramid tomb, in return for the freedom of the enslaved people. The pharoah marries a second wife, who murders the first wife and plots to prevent the gold from being entombed, and maybe help the pharoah die early.
Co-produced & directed by Howard Hawks; co-written by William Faulkner; starring Jack Hawkins, Joan Collins, James Robertson Justice, Dewey Martin, Alex Minotis, Luisella Boni & Sydney Chaplin
Warner Home Video widescreen color DVD [6/2007] for $9.99 Warner Home Video color VHS [7/94] for $0.00 full credits at IMDb |
Plays, Poetry & Other Works
William Faulkner's Broadway credits
"The Marionettes" [self-published play 1920]
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"The Marionettes" facsimile edition [1975]
Yoknapatawpha Press 9¼x6¼ leather-bound [7/75] for $125.00 "The Marionettes" playscript [1978] Edited by Noel Polk
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"Vision In Spring" [poems 1921]
"The Marble Faun" [poems 1924]
"This Earth, A Poem" [1932]
"A Green Bough" [poems 1933]
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"The Portable Faulkner" [orig 1946, rev 2003] by Malcolm Cowley
Cowley's 1946 book caused a resurgence in Faulkner's reputation and popularity. Penguin Classics 7¾x5 pb [2/2003] for $14.04 Viking hardcover [4/67] out of print/used Random House hardcover [7/85] out of print/used The revised edition includes "A Justice" [1931; "The Courthouse" (excerpt from 'Requiem For A Nun'); "Red Leaves" [1930]; "Was" (excerpt from 'Go Down, Moses'); "Raid" [1934] (excerpt from 'The Unvanquished'); "Wash" [1934]; "An Odor of Verbena" (excerpt from 'The Unvanquished'); "The Bear" [1942] (excerpt from 'Go Down, Moses'); "Spotted Horses" [1931] (excerpt from 'The Hamlet'); "That Evening Sun" [1931]; "Ad Astra" [1931]; "A Rose For Emily" [1930]; "Dilsey" (excerpt from 'The Sound & The Fury'); "Old Man" (excerpt from 'The Wild Palms'); "Death Drag" [1932]; "Uncle Bud and The Three Madams" (excerpt from 'Sanctuary'); "Percy Grimm" (excerpt from 'Light In August'); "Delta Autumn" [1942] (excerpt from 'Go Down, Moses'); "The Jail" (excerpt from 'Requiem For A Nun'); The Compsons Appendix; and Faulkner's "Address Upon Receiving The Nobel Prize For Literature" [1950], with essays by Cowley |
"The Long, Hot Summer" feature film [Fox April 1958]
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The man who runs the town of Frenchman's Bend, Mississippi hires a drifter to work in his store, and begins to believe that the man may be a good match for his spinster daughter.
Directed by Martin Ritt; based on Faulkner's stories "Barn Burning" & "The Spotted Horses", and his 1940 novel "The Hamlet"; starring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa, Orson Welles, Lee Remick & Angela Lansbury
Fox widescreen color DVD [5/2003] for $9.99 Fox color VHS [5/2003] out of prodn/used full credits at IMDb |
"The Long, Hot Summer" [Fox/A.B.C. TV series; 27 episodes 1965-1966]
Starring Roy Thinnes, Nancy Malone, Paul Geary, Ruth Roman, Lana Wood & Edmond O'Brien
video/DVD not available;
full credits from IMDb
"The Long Hot Summer" [N.B.C. miniseries Oct 1985]
Directed by Stuart Cooper; starring Don Johnson, Jason Robards, Judith Ivey, Cybill Shepherd,
Ava Gardner, William Russ & Wings Hauser; video/DVD not available;
full credits from IMDb
"Tomorrow" [Filmgroup April 1972; P.B.S. 1984]
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Considered the best-ever adaptation of a Faulkner work, nearly lost: filmed in 1972, not aired on TV until 1984. The story (told in flashback) of the reasons that an illiterate farmer is the only jury vote for the acquittal of a boy accused of murder.
Directed by Joseph Anthony; from Horton Foote's play based on a 1939 William Faulkner story; starring Robert Duvall, Olga Bellin, Sudie Bond & James Franks
Homevision b&w DVD [5/2004] for $26.99 Starz / Anchor Bay b&w VHS [7/99] out of prodn/used Delta Library b&w VHS [undated] out of prodn/used full credits at IMDb |
"Mississippi Poems" [1979]
"Helen, A Courtship and Mississippi Poems" [1981]
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"William Faulkner Reads" [1998] Mr. Faulkner reads his 1949 Nobel acceptance speech and excerpts from "As I Lay Dying", "Old Man", and "A Fable" Caedmon ABR audio [4/98] for $12.00 |
 | "The William Faulkner Audio Collection" [2003]
Mr. Faulkner reads his 1949 Nobel acceptance speech and excerpts from "As I Lay Dying", "Old Man", and "A Fable"; Keith Carradine reads "Spotted Horses"; Debra Winger reads "Barn Burning" and "A Rose For Emily"; Arliss Howard reads "That Evening Sun" and "Wash" Caedmon UNABR audio CD set [7/2003] 5 disks for $19.77 |
Works About William Faulkner
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"Faulkner and Love: The Women Who Shaped His Art" [2009?] |
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"Faulkner's Inheritance" [2007] Edited by Joseph R. Urgo & Ann J. Abadie Essays by Susan V. Donaldson, Lael Gold, Adam Gussow, Martin Kreiswirth, Jay Parini, Noel Polk, Judith L. Sensibar, Jon Smith & Priscilla Wald Univ Press of MS 9x6¼ hardcover [7/2007] for $46.70 |
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"William Faulkner: Lives and Legacies" [2007] by Carolyn Porter Oxford Univ Press 8¼x5½ hardcover [5/2007] for $16.38 |
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"One Matchless Time: A Life of William Faulkner" [2004] by Jay Parini Harper Perennial 8x5½ pb [6/2005] for $11.53 HarperCollins 9x6½ hardcover [11/2004] out of print/many used |
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"Faulkner At 100: Retrospect and Prospect - Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 1997" [2000] Edited by Donald M. Kartiganer & Ann J. Abadie Univ Press of MS 9x5¾ pb [11/2000] for $25.00 Univ Press of MS 9¼x6½ hardcover [11/2000] for $50.00 |
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"A William Faulkner Encyclopedia" [1999] Edited by Robert W. Hamblin & Charles A. Peek Greenwood Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [11/99] for $138.95 |
 | "The Cambridge Companion To William Faulkner" [1995] Edited by Philip M. Weinstein Cambridge Univ Press 9x5¾ pb [1/95] for $31.49 Cambridge Univ Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [1/95] out of print/used |
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"The Life of William Faulkner: A Critical Biography" [1994] by Richard Gray Wiley-Blackwell 9x6 pb [10/96] for $29.95 Blackwell Publng hardcover [12/94] out of print/used |
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"Faulkner: A Biography" [orig 1974; rev 1991] by Joseph Blotner Univ Press of MS 9¼x6 pb [5/2005] for $26.60 Vintage 8x5¼ pb [1/91] out of print/used Random House hardcover [3/84] for $35.00 Random House 2-volume hardcover [3/74] out of print/used |
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"William Faulkner: Life Glimpses" [1990] by Louis Daniel Brodsky Univ TX Press 9½x6¼ hardcover [7/90] out of print/used |
"The Origins of Faulkner's Art" [1984]
by Judith L. Sensibar
Univ TX Press hardcover [5/84] out of print/used
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"Some Time In The Sun: The Hollywood Years of F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Nathanael West, Aldous Huxley & James Agee" [1981] by Tom Dardis Limelight pb [2/99] for $12.95 |
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"William Faulkner: His Life and Work" [1980] by David L. Minter Johns Hopkins Univ Press 9x6 pb [8/97] for $25.00 Johns Hopkins Univ Press hardcover [9/80] out of print/used |
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"Never Cross A Vampire" [1980] by Stuart M. Kaminsky
A mystery novel of January 1942 Hollywood: Detective Toby Peters first is hired to find who is sending threats to fading actor Béla Lugosi, then to get screenwriter William Faulkner free of murder charges, then he finds that the two cases are connected. iBooks 8¼x5¼ pb [10/2000] out of print/used Mysterious Press mass pb [3/84] out of print/used St. Martin hardcover [1/80] out of print/used |
http://www.amazon.com/William-Faulkner-Southern-History-Williamson/dp/0195101294/
http://www.amazon.com/Critical-Companion-William-Faulkner-Reference/dp/0816064326/
http://www.amazon.com/William-Faulkner-Companion-Nicholas-Fargnoli/dp/1933648589/
http://www.amazon.com/William-Faulkner-Blooms-Modern-Critical/dp/0791097862/
http://www.amazon.com/Reading-Faulkner-Introductions-Thirteen-Novels/dp/157233603X/
http://www.amazon.com/Essays-Speeches-Letters-Library-Classics/dp/081297137X/
http://www.amazon.com/Faulkner-Divided-Eric-J-Sundquist/dp/0801831644/
http://www.amazon.com/Faulkner-Mississippi-Edouard-Glissant/dp/0226299945/
http://www.amazon.com/William-Faulkner-His-Life-Work/dp/0801857473/
Links
www.OxfordMS.com
1949 Nobel Prize
William Faulkner Foundation [est. 1994] in France
Faulkner Society at Ole Miss
Faulkner House / Pirate's Alley in New Orleans, LA
William Faulkner Society of Japan
1955 Pulitzer Prize for the novel "A Fable" [1954]
1963 Pulitzer Prize for the novel "The Reivers" [1962]
listed #60 on Atlantic Monthly's "100 Most Influential Americans" (12/2006)
William Faulkner page at LitWeb
new Faulkner Voice Online Archive at University of Virginia
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