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. * reive (reave): take away by stealth or force plunder. The account of the heroic trio’s journey is as exciting as it is hilarious-but it is just a pale prelude to the adventures that await them in Memphis. In that nostalgic day, their ensuing expedition in the car from Jefferson, Mississippi to Memphis called for the fearless hardihood of pioneers. It may be said, however, that one day in 1905 eleven-year-old Lucius Priest-certain to become one of the most cherished striplings in literature-“borrowed” his grandfather’s automobile, with the tacit connivance of two older friends: the part-Indian Boon Hogganbeck and Ned William McCaslin, a Negro. To reveal too much of the plot would be a discourtesy to the reader, for this is a book which moves on the wheels of breathless suspense. Adventure, fiction, Mississippi, Pulitzer Prize, film/TV adaptation
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