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Post #124085

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Gaffer Tape
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Harry Potter *Spoilers* (Serious Discussions Only, No Flaming)
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18-Jul-2005, 8:57 PM
His best-known novels are The Sound and the Fury (1929), As I Lay Dying (1930), Sanctuary (1931), Light in August (1932), Absalom, Absalom! (1936), The Unvanquished (1938), The Hamlet (1940), Intruder in the Dust (1948), Requiem for a Nun (1951), A Fable (1954; Pulitzer Prize), The Town (1957), The Mansion (1959), and The Reivers (1962; Pulitzer Prize). In addition to novels Faulkner published several volumes of short stories including These 13 (1931), Go Down, Moses (1942), Knight's Gambit (1949), and Big Woods (1955); and collections of essays and poems.

That was from Yahoo! reference. I've only read Light in August and The Unvanquished myself. He's a famous writer from Mississippi. His influences are quite heavy at my school, The University of Mississippi (or "Ole Miss"), and he used the town of Oxford (where the school is located) as the basis for the fictional town he used in most of his books. I'm not sure, but I think you're a little bit younger than me at least, so I'm sure you'll be forced to read him at some point in your academic career. He's a good writer, and his stories are interesting. It's just that this paragraph I'm writing is shorter than a lot of his sentences.