TODAY IN LITERARY HISTORY: Birthday of William Faulkner, Nobel Prize recipient for literature. DID YOU KNOW :……….The website Snopes com took its name from the Snopes, an unpleasant family who feature in the works of William Faulkner. Or that ………. William Faulkner was born Falkner; according to one story, the ‘u’ was the result of a typesetting error Faulkner didn’t bother to correct. Curiously, Falkner ’s great-grandfather had been Colonel Faulkner but had removed the ‘u’ – William put it back. William Cuthbert Faulkner was a Nobel Prize-winning American novelist and short story writer. One of the most influential writers of the twentieth century, his reputation is based mostly on his novels, novellas, and short stories. He was also a published poet and an occasional screenwriter. The majority of his works are based in his native state of Mississippi. Though his work was published as early as 1919, and largely during the 1920s and 1930s, Faulkner was relatively unknown until receivin
