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William Faulkner (1897-1962)
William Faulkner ranks with Ernest Hemingway as one of the leading American authors of the twentieth century. Faulkner, like Robert Frost, was a regionalist. His region was the Deep South, with its bitter history of slavery, civil war and destruction.

a.His Life

a. His Major Works
Faulkner wrote 19 novels, 4 collections of short stories, and 2 volumes of poetry. Among them, four novels are masterpieces by any standards:
The Sound and the Fury
It describes the decay and downfall of an old Southern aristocratic family, symbolizing the old social order, told from four different points of view.
Light in August
Absalom, Absalom!
One important theme of the novel is doom brought about by the denial of humanity.
Go Down, Moses
It tells roughly the same story of moral injustice which, in Faulkner's opinion, poisoned southern civilization at the root.

b. Major Themes
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