The word could apply to Lisa Hickman, who details dozens of William Faulkner’s breakdowns and hospitalizations, usually for what his doctors diagnosed as “acute alcoholism.” Ms. Hickman also depicts a ...

In November 1952, the Ford Foundation sent a documentary crew to Oxford, Mississippi, to create a brief portrait of William Faulkner (1897–1962), two years after he received the Nobel Prize for ...

Photo: AP. At a recent Sotheby's sale of fine books and manuscripts, an unusual lot came up for auction: William Faulkner's 1949 Nobel Prize and drafts of his acceptance speech, written on ...

William Faulkner and his wife ... How should we now regard this pathbreaking, Nobel Prize–winning author, who grappled with our nation’s racial tragedy in ways that at once illuminate and ...

See About archive blog posts. Although William Faulkner won a Nobel Prize in literature, his writing is still considered particularly dense. One of his most difficult works is ‘The Sound and the ...

William Faulkner was a novelist, short-story writer from Mississippi who received the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature “for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American ...

Combining a large influence of European modernism, William Faulkner ... It was praised by the Nobel Prize Committee for its depiction of “the structures of power” and “images of the ...