William Faulkner timeline
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'Intruder In The Dust' Is Published
The novel focuses on Lucas Beauchamp, a black farmer accused of murdering a white man. He is exonerated through the efforts of black and white... Read more
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William Faulkner is Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature
for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel. Read more
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'Requiem For a Nun' Is Published
Requiem for a Nun is a book written by William Faulkner in 1951. Like many of Faulkner's works, Requiem experiments with narrative technique—the... Read more
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'A Fable' Is Published
A Fable is a novel written in 1954 by the American author William Faulkner, which won him both the Pulitzer prize and the National Book Award in... Read more
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William Faulkner Is Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for 'A Fable'
A Fable was conceived in 1943 during a discussion in wartime Hollywood among Faulkner, producer William Bacher, and director Henry Hathaway about a... Read more
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'Land of the Pharaohs' Premieres In Theatres
William Faulkner (written by) Harry Kurnitz (written by) Harold Jack Bloom (written by) Cast Jack Hawkins - Pharaoh Khufu Joan Collins -... Read more
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'The Town' Is Published
The Town (1957) is the second novel in the Snopes trilogy that began with The Hamlet (included in Novels 1936–1940). Here the rise of the rapacious... Read more
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'The Mansion' Is Published
The Mansion is a novel by the American author William Faulkner, written in 1959. It is the last in a trilogy of books about the fictional Snopes... Read more
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'The Reivers' Is Published
The Reivers, published in 1962, is the last novel by the American author William Faulkner. The bestselling novel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for... Read more
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William Faulkner Dies
Faulkner died on July 6, 1962, of a heart attack in Byhalia, Mississippi. He willed the major manuscripts and personal papers in his possession to... Read more
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William Faulkner Is Posthumously Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for 'The Reivers'
William Faulkner's fictional chronicle of Yoknapatawpha County draws to a close in this Library of America edition of his last three novels, rich... Read more
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