Photograph of William Faulkner by Carl Van Vechten, 1954
The Sound and the Fury (1929)
Born in New Albany, Mississippi, at the very end of the nineteenth century, William Faulkner was a novelist, short story writer, poet, essayist, playwright, and even a Hollywood screenwriter. He is best known for his many novels set in the fictional region of Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi. Faulkner spent the better part of his life in Oxford, Mississippi, where he was steeped in the history and culture of Southern life. In 1949, Faulkner won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Check out these excerpts from an interview with William Faulkner:
Listen to Faulkner read his 1949 Nobel Prize acceptance speech, recorded in 1954:
Important Links:
Contexts of The Sound and the Fury
Literary Form in The Sound and the Fury
The Way Forward Out of the Past in The Sound and the Fury
My Close Readings:
Passage from Vintage Edition (1990), Page 4: Caddy Uncaught Me
Passage from Vintage Edition (1990), Page 133: The Red Print
Passages for Close Reading Assignment:
