William Faulkner's Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
Speech
By: William Faulkner
Date: December 10, 1950
Source: Faulkner, William. Nobel prize acceptance speech. December 10, 1950. Available online at http://www.nobel.se/literature/laureates/1949/; website home page: http://www.nobel.se (accessed February 26, 2003).
About the Author: William Faulkner (1897–1962) was born and lived most of his life Mississippi. In a series of novels and short stories he wrote a monumental history of Yoknapatawpha County, an imaginary place based on his home. The Sound and the Fury (1929) is the most famous of these works. He did not initially meet with success, but after World War II (1939–1945) critics took notice of his work and Faulkner is now regarded as one of the twentieth century's greatest novelists. He won the Nobel Prize for...
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