William Faulkner
1897 CE–1962 CE · Novelist · New Albany, Mississippi
William Faulkner was an American novelist and short-story writer whose work centered on the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, modeled on his native northern Mississippi. Raised in Oxford, Mississippi, he wrote novels including The Sound and the Fury (1929), As I Lay Dying (1930), Light in August (1932), and Absalom, Absalom! (1936), known for dense chronology, shifting narrators, and stream-of-consciousness technique. He supplemented his income as a Hollywood screenwriter and later served as writer-in-residence at the University of Virginia. He received the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature and two Pulitzer Prizes. He died in 1962 in Byhalia, Mississippi.
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- Robert Frost· 1874 CE–1963 CE
- Hermann Hesse· 1877 CE–1962 CE
- Pablo Picasso· 1881 CE–1973 CE
- Igor Stravinsky· 1882 CE–1971 CE
- Ezra Pound· 1885 CE–1972 CE
- Diego Rivera· 1886 CE–1957 CE
- Le Corbusier· 1887 CE–1965 CE
- Marc Chagall· 1887 CE–1985 CE
- Georgia O'Keeffe· 1887 CE–1986 CE
- T. S. Eliot· 1888 CE–1965 CE
- Martin Heidegger· 1889 CE–1976 CE
- Ludwig Wittgenstein· 1889 CE–1951 CE
- Sergei Prokofiev· 1891 CE–1953 CE
- J. R. R. Tolkien· 1892 CE–1973 CE
- Bertolt Brecht· 1898 CE–1956 CE
- René Magritte· 1898 CE–1967 CE
- Ernest Hemingway· 1899 CE–1961 CE
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry· 1900 CE–1944 CE
- John Steinbeck· 1902 CE–1968 CE
- George Orwell· 1903 CE–1950 CE
- Pablo Neruda· 1904 CE–1973 CE
- Frida Kahlo· 1907 CE–1954 CE
- Simone Weil· 1909 CE–1943 CE
- Albert Camus· 1913 CE–1960 CE
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- David Ben-Gurion· 1886 CE–1973 CE
- Dwight D. Eisenhower· 1890 CE–1969 CE
- Ho Chi Minh· 1890 CE–1969 CE
- Charles de Gaulle· 1890 CE–1970 CE
- Harry S. Truman· 1884 CE–1972 CE
- Chiang Kai-shek· 1887 CE–1975 CE
- Aung San· 1915 CE–1947 CE
- Jawaharlal Nehru· 1889 CE–1964 CE
- Nikita Khrushchev· 1894 CE–1971 CE
- Edward VIII· 1894 CE–1972 CE
- Haile Selassie I· 1892 CE–1975 CE
- Francisco Franco· 1892 CE–1975 CE
- Clement Attlee· 1883 CE–1967 CE
- Mao Zedong· 1893 CE–1976 CE
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