William Faulkner

1897 - 1962

The American Writer, William Faulkner, from Oxford, Mississippi, was an American writer, Nobel Prize laureate, and Pulitzer Prize winner, known for his novels and short stories set in Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, MS, where he spent most of his life. He is known as one of the greatest writers of American Literature.

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The Hill

Before him and slightly above his head, the hill crest

was clearly laid on the sky. Over it slid a sibilant invisi-

bility of wind like a sheet of water, and it seemed to him

that he ... [+]