William Faulkner bibliography

William Faulkner (1897–1962) was an American writer known for his Southern Gothic novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on his hometown of Oxford in Lafayette County, Mississippi. He is widely considered the preeminent writer of Southern literature and among the most significant figures in American literature. In 1949, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for "his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel".

In 1919, as a student at the University of Mississippi, Faulkner published his first work, the poem "L'Après-midi d'un Faune", in The New Republic. While living in New Orleans in 1925, he published over a dozen short stories collectively known as the "New Orleans Sketches". Faulkner's first novels—Soldiers' Pay (1926) and Mosquitoes (1927)—were not successful, and his third, Flags in the Dust, was rejected by publishers before its publication as the abridged Sartoris (1929). Convinced that he "would never be published again", Faulkner wrote the experimental and deeply personal The Sound and the Fury. Written in stream of consciousness, the novel was published in 1929 with few sales due to the onset of the Great Depression. It is now considered among his greatest works.

Faulkner expanded on his stream of consciousness approach in As I Lay Dying, which is narrated by 15 characters bringing a mother to her grave in Yoknapatawpha.