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William faulkner was a nobel prizewinning novelist of the american south who wrote challenging prose and created the fictional yoknapatawpha county. Faulkner had meanwhile written his guts into the more technically sophisticated the sound and the fury, believing that he was fated to remain permanently. September 25, 1897 july 6, 1962 was an american writer and nobel prize laureate from oxford, mississippi. William faulkner 18971962 was a nobel prizewinning american novelist and short story writer. William faulkner reads from his novel as i lay dying rare.
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