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William Faulkner Father of Southern American literature I. Life experience William Faulkner (1897-1962), the first and most important southern writer to emerge in the postwar years, ranks among the leading American authors of the twentieth century. wrote altogether 18 novels and three volumes of short stories. won Nobel Prize for literature in 1950. He was born in a distinguished Mississippi family that had once played an important role in state politics. lived in Oxford from early childhood, and was educated at the university there joined the Canadian, and later the British, Royal Air Forc