The Nobel Prize in Literature 1950
Awarded on: 1950-11-10
"for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel"
William Faulkner
Born: 1897-09-25 in New Albany, MS, USA
Gender: male
Field: American writer (1897–1962)
Biography
William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer. He is best known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, a stand-in for Lafayette County where he spent most of his life. A Nobel laureate, Faulkner is one of the most celebrated writers of American literature, often considered the greatest writer of Southern literature and regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century.