Biography
William Faulkner (1897–1962) was an American novelist and screenwriter. He was born in New Albany, Mississippi, and died in Byhalia, Mississippi.
Faulkner contributed to several screenplays in the 1940s and 1950s. He received credit for To Have and Have Not (1945) and The Big Sleep (1946), both directed by Howard Hawks, as well as Land of the Pharaohs (1955). His novels formed the basis for films including The Long, Hot Summer (1958) and The Reivers (1969).
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949 and two Pulitzer Prizes, for A Fable (1955) and The Reivers (1963).
