Faulkner Born: Southern Gothic's Master Storyteller
William Faulkner mapped the fictional Yoknapatawpha County onto the American South and populated it with characters whose stream-of-consciousness narratives dismantled conventional storytelling. His novels The Sound and the Fury and Absalom, Absalom! earned the Nobel Prize and permanently altered the architecture of modern fiction, influencing writers from Gabriel Garcia Marquez to Toni Morrison.
September 25, 1897
129 years ago
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