Two of his works, A Fable (1954) and his last novel The Reivers (1962), won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Though his work was published as early as 1919, and largely during the 1920s and 1930s, Faulkner was relatively unknown until receiving the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature, for which he became the only Mississippi-born Nobel laureate. He is primarily known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where he spent most of his life.įaulkner is one of the most celebrated writers in American literature generally and Southern literature specifically. Faulkner wrote novels, short stories, a play, poetry, essays, and screenplays. William Cuthbert Faulkner (Septem– July 6, 1962) was an American writer and Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford, Mississippi.
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