Adjacent Words

Faulkner definitions

	Tweet

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: United States novelist (originally Falkner) who wrote about people in the southern United States (1897-1962) [syn: Faulkner, William Faulkner, William Cuthbert Faulkner, Falkner, William Falkner]

Merriam Webster's

biographical name William Cuthbert 1897-1962 originally surname Falkner American novelist • Faulknerian also Faulkneresque adjective

Britannica Concise

U.S. writer. Born in New Albany, Miss., he dropped out of high school and only briefly attended college. He spent most of his life in Oxford, Miss. He is best known for his cycle of works set in fictional Yoknapatawpha Co., which becomes an emblem of the Amer. South and its tragic history. His first major novel, The Sound and the Fury (1929), was marked by radical technical experimentation, incl. stream of consciousness. His Amer. reputation, which lagged behind his European reputation, was boosted by As I Lay Dying (1930), Light in August (1932), Absalom, Absalom! (1936), and Go Down, Moses (1942), which contains the story "The Bear." The Portable Faulkner (1946) finally brought his work into wide circulation, and he won the Nobel Prize in 1949. His Collected Stories (1950) won the National Book Award. He also wrote movie scripts, a play, and two volumes of poems. Both in the U.S. and abroad, especially in Latin America, he was among the most influential writers of the 20th cent.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

A tumbler, juggler, or shewer of tricks; perhaps because they lure the people, as a faulconer does his hawks. Cant.