| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| 1930 novel (The Bundren family's journey to bury their mother) | As I Lay Dying | 100%
|
| 1936 novel (The rise and fall of Thomas Sutpen) | Absalom, Absalom! | 83%
|
| He was born and spent most of his life in this state | Mississippi | 83%
|
| He won this award in 1949 | Nobel Prize in Literature | 83%
|
| He won this award in 1955 and (posthumously) in 1963 | Pulitzer Prize for Fiction | 83%
|
| 1929 novel (Features the Compson family; stream of consciousness narration) | The Sound and the Fury | 83%
|
| Contributed to this Howard Hawks film adapted from a Raymond Chandler novel | The Big Sleep | 67%
|
| 1932 novel (A pregnant woman searching for her child's father) | Light in August | 50%
|
| "Sound and the fury" is a quote from this 1606 tragedy. | Macbeth | 50%
|
| The 1962 work he won a Pulitzer for | The Reivers | 50%
|
| Contributed to this Howard Hawks film adapted from a Hemingway novel | To Have and Have Not | 50%
|
| The 1954 work he won a Pulitzer for | A Fable | 33%
|
| He wrote his first novel Soldiers' Pay while living in this city | New Orleans | 33%
|
| Sartoris was his first of many novels to be set in this fictional county | {Yoknapatawpha} County | 33%
|
| Year he was born | 1897 | 17%
|
| Short story featuring the mysterious death of Homer Barron | A Rose for Emily | 17%
|