William Faulkner was born on 25 September 1897 in New Albany. An American novelist from Mississippi, Faulkner set most of his work in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, modelled on the area around his home town of Oxford. His novels, which include The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Light in August and Absalom, Absalom, explore the history, racism and social decay of the American South with experimental techniques such as shifting narrators, stream of consciousness and non-chronological narrative. He was little noticed at first, but his reputation grew after the Second World War, and he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949, as well as two Pulitzer Prizes. He also worked as a screenwriter in Hollywood.
Before and after
- 24 July 1897Birth of Amelia Earhart
- from 16 August 1897 to 5 November 1899Belgian Antarctic Expedition
- 20 August 1897Ronald Ross shows that mosquitoes transmit malaria
- 12 September 1897Birth of Irène Joliot-Curie
- 25 September 1897Birth of William Faulkner
- 26 September 1897Birth of Paul VI
- from 12 October 1897 to 29 August 1910Korean Empire
- 29 October 1897Birth of Joseph Goebbels
- 1 November 1897Founding of Juventus FC
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