William Faulkner's life and works
''That Evening sun" by William Faulkner
Notable awards
Notable works
- Name: William Cuthbert Falkner
- Born: September 25, 1897 New Albany, Mississippi, U.S.
- Died: July 6, 1962 Byhalia, Mississippi, U.S.
- Nobel Prize in Literature 1949
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 1955, 1963
Characters
- The Sound and the Fury
- As I Lay Dying
- Light in August
- Absalom, Absalom!
- A Rose for Emily
- Nancy
- Jesus (Jubah)
- Mr. Compson
- Ms. Compson
- Quentin
- Caddy
- Jason
- Dilsey
- Mr. Stovall
- Dislocated narrative
- Biblical imagery and allusion
That Evening Sun
- Why is Nancy described as "not herself"?
References
- http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1949/faulkner-bio.html
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Faulkner
- http://timlepczyk.com/2010/11/09/that-evening-sun-william-faulkner-point-of-view.html
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/That_Evening_Sun
- http://www.oprah.com/oprahsbookclub/Faulkner-101-Toni-Morrison-and-William-Faulkner
- http://voices.yahoo.com/biblical-imagery-allusions-faulkners-evening-154024.html?cat=38
- He joined the Canadian, and later the British, Royal Air Force during the First World War, studied for a while at the University of Mississippi, and temporarily worked for a New York bookstore and a New Orleans newspaper. Except for some trips to Europe and Asia, and a few brief stays in Hollywood as a scriptwriter, he worked on his novels and short stories on a farm in Oxford.
- The title is taken from the song Saint Louis Blues, originally composed by W.C. Handy, but popularized by Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong in 1927.