William Faulkner, American novelist
Jul. 07, 1962 - 80th birthday of William Faulkner on what would be the 80th birthday of William Faulkner, the American author. The writer, born in Albany (Mississippi) he studied in Oxford in Great Britain and in Oxford in Mississippi and was hurt in the British air force during the first world war - combined in his books, by using all means of style, drastic realism with social criticism. The scene of his stories, in which race and family conflicts play an important role, is mostly his home, the southern states of America. the well known books of William Faulkner, to whom was awarded the Nobel prize for literature in 1949, are the stories As I Lay dying, sanctuary, light in August, Pylon, Absalom. Absalom, Intruder in the dust, Requiem for a nun, A fable, Snopes trilogy The hamlet / The town /The mansion, The rivers, the tale Go down, Moses, beside poems and essays
