Books By William Faulkner, James B. Meriwether - Author

William Faulkner was born in Mississippi in 1897. A legend of American letters, he is the author of The Sound and the Fury, Absalom, Absalom!, As I Lay Dying, and many other works. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950, and died in 1962.

James B. Meriwether is an expert on Faulkner who has been editing Faulkner's fiction and nonfiction work since the late 1950s. He lives with his wife, Anne, in South Carolina.