Faulkner William


Faulk·ner

also Falk·ner F0053700 (fôk′nər), William 1897-1962. American writer whose works, such as the novels The Sound and the Fury (1929) and As I Lay Dying (1930), both set in the imaginary Yoknapatawpha County, explore the decay of older Southern culture. He won the 1949 Nobel Prize for literature.
Faulk·ner′i·an (fôk-nîr′ē-ən) adj.