Faulkner

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.

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Faulk·neri·an (fôk-nîr-n) adj.

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Faulkner - United States novelist (originally Falkner) who wrote about people in the southern United States (1897-1962) Falkner, William Cuthbert Faulkner, William Falkner, William Faulkner