William Faulkner died on 6 July 1962 in Byhalia, aged 64. 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
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- 1 July 19621962 Algerian independence referendum
- 3 July 1962Birth of Tom Cruise
- 5 July 1962Algeria becomes independent from France
- 6 July 1962Death of William Faulkner
- 22 July 1962Launch of Mariner 1
- 4 August 1962Death of Marilyn Monroe
- 9 August 1962Death of Hermann Hesse
- 27 August 1962Launch of Mariner 2
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