William Faulkner

William Cuthbert Faulkner (September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was a Nobel Prize-winning novelist from Mississippi. Though his works are sometimes challenging or even difficult, he is regarded as one of America's most important fiction writers.

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September 25 - 1897 - July 6 - 1962 - Nobel Prize - Novelist - Mississippi

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In works of psychological drama and emotional depth, Faulkner was known for using long serpentine sentences and high, meticulously-chosen diction, in stark contrast to his long time rival Ernest Hemingway; his long sentences and ornate verbiage contrasted to Hemingway's short, 'minimalist' style. Some consider him to be the only true American Modernist prose fiction writer of the 1930s, following in experimental tradition European writers such as James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Marcel Proust. His work is known for literary devices such as stream of consciousness, multiple narrations or points of view, and time-shifts within narrative.

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Ernest Hemingway - Modernist - 1930 - James Joyce - Virginia Woolf - Marcel Proust - Stream of consciousness - Points of view

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