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Faulkner

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Faulk·ner also Falk·ner  (fôknr), William 1897-1962.
American writer who set many of his works, such as the novels The Sound and the Fury (1929) and The Unvanquished (1938), in the imaginary Yoknapatawpha County, a microcosm of the postbellum South, in which he explored the decay of traditional Southern culture and the relations between the races. He won the 1949 Nobel Prize for literature.
Faulk·neri·an (fôk-nîr-n) adj.
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Noun1.FaulknerFaulkner - United States novelist (originally Falkner) who wrote about people in the southern United States (1897-1962)
Falkner, William Cuthbert Faulkner, William Falkner, William Faulkner
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Also, a pair of blacks which he was going to put into the break recalled vividly to his mind a pair which he had sold to Faulkner in '19, for a hundred guineas, and which Faulkner had sold for a hundred and sixty two months later--any gent who could disprove this statement being offered the privilege of calling Mr.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
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