William Cuthbert Faulkner: American Literature contributor

William Cuberth Faulkner who was born in September 25, 1897 in New Albany, Mississippi, and who died in July 6, 1962, was a Nobel Prize-winning American author. He is considered as one of the most influential writers of the 20th century due to his novels, novellas, as well as short stories in which he made emphasis. Furthermore, he was also known as a published poet and occasional screenwriter. Faulkner is considered as one of the most important Southern writers along with his contemporary colleges Mark Twain and Tennessee Williams. While most of his works were published regularly starting in the mid 1920s, he was relatively unknown before receiving the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature which means that not many people before 1949 relied on his extremely terrific output. As of this year, he has often been cited as one of the most relevant writers in the history of American Literature. Most of his works are set in his native state of Mississippi, and even though his, was not a totally global work, he was one of the pioneers of many American literature's genres. A very curious piece of information is that William Faulkner made an adjustment to his family name, he changed his last name from Falkner to Faulkner.

WRITING AND AWARDS

During the early 1920s Faulkner published 13 novels and numerous short stories, the body of works that grounds his reputation and whereby he was awarded the Nobel Prize at the age of 52. This output considered as prodigious was mainly driven by an obscure writer's needs for money, and if this seems amazing, the fact that it includes his most celebrated novels such as The Sound and The Fury, Light in August and Absalom is much more interesting. Faulkner also wrote two volumes of poetry which were published in small printings, The Marble Faun (1924) and A Green Bough (1933), and a collection of crime-fiction short stories, Knight's Gambits (1949).
The most relevant distinction he acquired was the 1949 Nobel Prize for "his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel." He donated a portion of his Nobel winnings to establish a fund to support and encourage new fiction writers which was of a lot of significance for those who were willing to follow Faulkner's example. A local Oxford was also favored with Faulkner's contribution; he provided another portion to grant African-American students, so they would have the opportunity to obtain major education at nearby Rust College in Holly Springs, Mississippi.