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William Faulkner Quiz

Answer these questions about the famous American author.
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Year he was born
1897
He was born and spent most of his life in this state
Mississippi
He wrote his first novel Soldiers' Pay while living in this city
New Orleans
Sartoris was his first of many novels to be set in this fictional county
Yoknapatawpha County
1929 novel (Features the Compson family; stream of consciousness narration)
The Sound and the Fury
The above title comes from this 1606 tragedy.
Macbeth
1930 novel (The Bundren family's journey to bury their mother)
As I Lay Dying
1932 novel (A pregnant woman searching for her child's father)
Light in August
1936 novel (The rise and fall of Thomas Sutpen)
Absalom, Absalom!
Short story featuring the mysterious death of Homer Barron
A Rose for Emily
Contributed to this Howard Hawks film adapted from a Hemingway novel
To Have and Have Not
Contributed to this Howard Hawks film adapted from a Raymond Chandler novel
The Big Sleep
He won this award in 1949
Nobel Prize in Literature
He won this award in 1955 and (posthumously) in 1963
Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
The two works he won the aforementioned prize for
A Fable
The Reivers
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