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“Barn Burning” (1938) William Faulkner William Faulkner (1897-1962) Greatest American Southern writer, won the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1950 A master of modernist experimentation in the novel, related to his obsession with time stream of consciousness, temporal shifts, and multiple voices Some major novels: The Sound and the Fury (1929) [4 narrators], As I Lay Dying (1930) [15 narrators], Absalom! Absalom! (1936) Colonel William Clark Falkner (1826-89) Faulkner’s great-grandfather Civil War Veteran Politician Popular Romantic Novelist (The White Rose of Memphis, 1881) Died of gunshot wound