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Barn Burning William Faulkner Birth:?Sep. 25, 1897 New Albany Union County Mississippi,Death:?Jul. 6, 1962 Byhalia Marshall County Mississippi, Genres Southern Gothic Literary movement Modernism, stream of consciousness Notable work(s) The Sound and the Fury (1929), As I Lay Dying在我弥留之际 (1930), Light in August (1932), Absalom, Absalom! (1936), and The Unvanquished (1938); most acclaimed (and most frequently anthologized) stories, including A Rose for Emily, Red Leaves, That Evening Sun, and Dry September. awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel. donated half the prize money to a fund that supports new writers regarded as one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century known for an experimental style with meticulous attention to diction and cadence. In contrast to the minimalist understatement of his peer Ernest Hemingway, Faulkner made frequent use of stream of consciousness in his writing, and wrote often highly emotional, subtle, cerebral/intelligent, complex, and sometimes Gothic or grotesque stories of a wide variety of characters —ranging from former slaves or descendents of slaves, to poor white, agrarian, or working-class Southerners, to Southern aristocrats. All his major works firmly rooted in the fictional Mississippi county of Yoknapatawpha. By creating an imaginary setting, Faulkner allows his characters to inhabit a fully realized world that serves as a mirror to and microcosm of the South that the novelist knew so well and explored so deeply. Most of his works set in his native state of Mississippi one of the most important Southern writers, along with Mark Twain, Tennessee Williams his work published regularly from the mid 1920s to the late 1940s, relatively unknown before receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949. widely seen as among the greatest American writers of all time. Faulkners fame and acclaim stem from his novels, novell