William Faulkner
William Faulkner (1897–1962) was a Nobel Prize-winning American writer from Mississippi. He is celebrated for his complex, experimental novels set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, a detailed literary cosmos based on his own home. This author hub collects 5 works in the Canon Compass ranking, led by The Sound and the Fury.
Start with The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner, ranked #8 in the Canon Compass list.
Featured Books
William Faulkner's The Sound and the Fury: The Compson family's tragic decline told through Benjy, Quentin, and Jason. Summary, analysis, and where to buy.
Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!: Thomas Sutpen's doomed dynasty and the South's original sin. A dense, demanding masterpiece of American Gothic fiction.
Faulkner's As I Lay Dying: the Bundren family's harrowing journey to bury their mother. A darkly comic Southern masterpiece told in fifteen voices.
Faulkner's Light in August: race, identity, and redemption in the American South. Three intertwined lives in Jefferson, Mississippi.
