Faulkner was a prolific writer whose published work includes novels, short stories, screenplays, and poetry. He is most famous for his nineteen novels, which include The Sound and the Fury (1929), As I Lay Dying (1930), Light in August (1932), and Absalom, Absalom! (1936).
Faulkner is seen as a key figure of the Literary Modernism movement, which experimented with the standard conventions of literature at the time. Other figures in this movement include T.S. Eliot, Virginia Woolf, and James Joyce. Faulkner's stream-of-consciousness style in some of his work is often compared to Joyce. Faulkner was heavily influenced by the modernist writer Sherwood Anderson and his novel Winesburg, Ohio....
