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William Faulkner
Author profile
born
September 25, 1897
in New Albany, Mississippi, The United States
died
July 06, 1962
gender
male
genre
influences
James Joyce, William Shakespeare, Nietzsche, T.S. Eliot
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The Sound and the Fury
   3.82 avg rating — 49,782 ratings
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1929
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29 editions
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As I Lay Dying
3.69 avg rating — 38,903 ratings
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1930
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69 editions
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Light in August
3.88 avg rating — 17,366 ratings
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1932
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65 editions
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Absalom, Absalom!
3.90 avg rating — 11,705 ratings
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1936
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44 editions
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A Rose for Emily
3.97 avg rating — 3,834 ratings
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1930
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15 editions
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Go Down, Moses
3.89 avg rating — 3,410 ratings
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1942
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24 editions
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Sanctuary
3.63 avg rating — 3,641 ratings
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1931
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46 editions
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Collected Stories
 4.24 avg rating — 1,984 ratings
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published
1948
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30 editions
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The Unvanquished
3.68 avg rating — 1,893 ratings
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1934
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18 editions
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The Reivers
3.71 avg rating — 1,772 ratings
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1962
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“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it.
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
― William Faulkner
Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”
― William Faulkner
“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world...would do this, it would change the earth.”
― William Faulkner
― William Faulkner
“Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”
― William Faulkner
― William Faulkner
Polls
Which of these group-nominated Board's List books would you like to read in the month of February?
#80 Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
#93 The Magus by John Fowles
#94 Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
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