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When William Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949, his works in the United States had been out of print for almost a decade. While writers like Steinbeck and Hemingway dominated the American literary landscape, Faulkner was, at best, an afterthought. This article examines how someone who was out of print in their own country could win a Noble Prize years and years before his American contemporaries.

This article examines the works of William Faulkner as a whole and asks questions about why he wrote about what he wrote about and how he was able to transform the materials of a small stretch of land in Mississippi into literary ground fertile enough to allow him to win a Nobel Prize in Literature. The articles contain pictures, reading recommendations, and links to other articles by the author on William Faulkner.

Any attempt to say something meaningful about the literature of William Faulkner must acknowledge the overwhelming task of saying anything at all about his literature. This truth makes itself most apparent in an attempt to write about Absalom, Absalom! In this article, which examines Absalom, Absalom!, the character of Thomas Sutpen is examined through the lens Joseph Campbell's Hero Archetype and is revealed to be the specific American version of the hero: the anti-hero.

This article discusses William Faulkner's novel, Light in August. It examines specifically the character of Joe Christmas, one of Faulkner's mos enigmatic and tragic characters. The article examines how the real tragedy in the story of Joe Christmas is the racial prejudice of his family and his fellow man. The article presents the discussion within the context of understanding Faulkner's work and it's significance as a whole.