Yoknapatawpha County has its fair share of characters: Dewey Dell, Caddy Compson, Thomas Sutpen, Addie Bundren, and Ab Snopes just to name a few. William Faulkner spent decades weaving tales of this fictitious Mississippi county. Whether making a casket for one’s still-living mother or walking hundreds of miles to find an unborn child’s father, there is something uniquely odd in each Faulkner novel. Every one of them mixes the macabre and the exalted. The Nobel Laureate would have celebrated his 110th birthday today. Celebrate for him and enjoy one of these titles.
Faulkner novels:
As I Lay Dying
The Sound and the Fury
Absalom, Absalom
Go Down, Moses
A Light in August
The Reivers
Faulkner biographies:
One Matchless Time: a Life of William Faulkner
Faulkner: a biography
William Faulkner
Count No ‘Count: flashbacks to Faulkner
Faulkner Movie Tie-ins:
Barton Fink
O Brother, Where Art Thou?
The Big Sleep (Faulkner wrote the screenplay for this adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s novel)
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