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William Faulkner

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Noun

1. falkner, faulkner, william cuthbert faulkner, william falkner, william faulkner

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

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William Faulkner

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American writer whose works, such as the novels The Sound and the Fury (1929) and As I Lay Dying (1930), both set in the imaginary Yoknapatawpha County, explore the decay of older Southern culture. He won the 1949 Nobel Prize for literature.

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