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name: "William Faulkner"
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roles: ["Writer"]
born: "25 September 1897"
died: "6 July 1962"
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average_as: "writer"
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# William Faulkner

Writer. Born 25 September 1897 in New Albany, Mississippi, USA. Died 6 July 1962.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 25 September 1897, New Albany, Mississippi, USA
- **Died:** 6 July 1962
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q38392, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001203/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/13971

## Biography

William Faulkner (1897–1962) was an American novelist and screenwriter. He was born in New Albany, Mississippi, and died in Byhalia, Mississippi.

Faulkner contributed to several screenplays in the 1940s and 1950s. He received credit for *To Have and Have Not* (1945) and *The Big Sleep* (1946), both directed by Howard Hawks, as well as *Land of the Pharaohs* (1955). His novels formed the basis for films including *The Long, Hot Summer* (1958) and *The Reivers* (1969).

He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949 and two Pulitzer Prizes, for *A Fable* (1955) and *The Reivers* (1963).

*Sources: nytimes.com, imdb.com, britannica.com, biography.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Big Sleep* (1946), Fi1m 84, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/the-big-sleep.md)

## Also known for

- *To Have and Have Not* (1945), Screenplay
- *The Long, Hot Summer* (1958), Short Story, Novel
- *Land of the Pharaohs* (1955), Writer
- *The Tarnished Angels* (1957), Novel
- *As I Lay Dying* (2013), Novel
- *The Southerner* (1945), Writer
- *The Reivers* (1969), Novel
- *Intruder in the Dust* (1949), Novel

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