|
Speaking of Stories transforming
short stories from the page to the stage
|
| Next Performance |
WILLIAM FAULKNER William Faulkner (A Rose for Emily): More than simply a renowned Mississippi writer, the Nobel Prize-winning novelist and short story writer is acclaimed throughout the world as one of this century’s greatest writers, one who transformed his "postage stamp" of native soil into an apocryphal setting in which he explored, articulated, and challenged "the old verities and truths of the heart." During his period of greatest artistic achievement, from The Sound in the Fury in 1929 to Go Down, Moses in 1942, Faulkner accomplished (in a little over a decade) more, artistically, than most writers accomplish over a lifetime of writing. Despite the fact that Faulkner never graduated from high school and never received a college degree, he managed (while balancing a growing family of dependents and impending financial ruin), to write a series of celebrated novels. He lived and wrote during the Great Depression in a small town in the poorest state in the nation. His novels, (As I Lay Dying; Light in August; Absalom, Absalom!) all set in the same small Southern county have been recognized as among the greatest novels ever written by an American. Appearing in April of 1930 in Forum magazine A Rose For Emily was his first short story to receive national publication. |