American Literature Portfolio
the most important Southern writers, along with Mark Twain, Robert Penn Warren, Flannery
O'Connor, Truman Capote, Eudora Welty, and Tennessee Williams.
While his work was published regularly starting in the mid 1920s, Faulkner was relatively
unknown before receiving the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is now deemed among the
greatest American writers of all time.
Novels
· Soldiers' Pay (1926)
· Father Abraham (written: 1926/1927 pub: 1983)
· Mosquitoes (1927)
· Sartoris/Flags in the Dust (1929/1973)
· The Sound and the Fury (1929)
· As I Lay Dying (1930)
· Sanctuary (1931)
· Light in August (1932)
· Pylon (1935)
· Absalom, Absalom! (1937)
Short stories
· "Landing in Luck" (1919)
· "The Hill" (1922)
· "New Orleans"
· "Mirrors of Chartres Street" (1925)
· "Damon and Pythias Unlimited" (1925)
· "Jealousy" (1925)
· "Cheest" (1925)
The Great Depression