William Faulkner bibliography

William Faulkner in 1954

William Faulkner (1897–1962)^[1] was an American writer known for his Southern Gothic novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on his hometown of Oxford in Lafayette County, Mississippi.^[2][3] He is widely considered the preeminent writer of Southern literature and among the most significant figures in American literature.^[4][5] In 1949, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for "his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel".^[6]

In 1919, as a student at the University of Mississippi, Faulkner published his first work, the poem "L'Après-midi d'un Faune", in The New Republic.^[7] While living in New Orleans in 1925, he published over a dozen short stories collectively known as the "New Orleans Sketches".^[8] Faulkner's first novels—Soldiers' Pay (1926) and Mosquitoes (1927)—were not successful, and his third, Flags in the Dust, was rejected by publishers before its publication as the abridged Sartoris (1929).^[9] Convinced that he "would never be published again", Faulkner wrote the experimental and deeply personal The Sound and the Fury.^[10] Written in stream of consciousness, the novel was published in 1929 with few sales due to the onset of the Great Depression.^[11][12] It is now considered among his greatest works.^[13][14]

Faulkner expanded on his stream of consciousness approach in As I Lay Dying, which is narrated by 15 characters bringing a mother to her grave in Yoknapatawpha.^[15][16] Aspiring to create a commercial work, Faulkner wrote the sensationalist Sanctuary (1931).^[17] Although its violence and sexuality were controversial, the novel was immensely successful and brought new attention to his previous works.^[18] Subsequent novels in that decade—namely Light in August (1932) and Absalom, Absalom! (1936)—are regarded as among his best and have both been hailed as the "Great American Novel".^[19][20][21] His 1949 novel The Hamlet launched the Snopes trilogy, completed by The Town (1957) and The Mansion (1959). Faulkner's 1954 novel A Fable, which follows a Christ-like corporal in World War I, won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.^[22] He published his 19th and final novel, The Reivers, in 1962, the year he died. The work garnered him a second Pulitzer posthumously.^[23]

Beyond his novels, Faulkner was a prolific short story writer. In addition to short story collections, two novels—The Unvanquished (1938) and Go Down, Moses (1942)—consist of interrelated short stories. In 1932, director Howard Hawks, impressed by his work, invited Faulkner to California to adapt his short story "Turn About" into the film Today We Live (1933).^[24] Until 1954, Faulkner split his time between Oxford and Hollywood, working as a screenwriter on some 50 film projects and becoming a frequent collaborator and close friend of Hawks.^[25][26] Some screenplay contributions, such as those to Gunga Din (1939), were uncredited, and many of his scripts were never produced. In addition to several speeches, book reviews, and book introductions, Faulkner also wrote essays on topics ranging from Albert Camus to Japan.

Prose fiction

Novels

The Sound and the Fury (1929) cover

Light in August (1932) cover

Absalom, Absalom! (1936) cover

Novels by William Faulkner

Year	Title	Publisher	Notes	Ref.
1926	Soldiers' Pay	Boni & Liveright	Faulkner's debut novel	[27]
1927	Mosquitoes	Boni & Liveright	Set on Lake Pontchartrain, features Faulkner himself in a cameo	[27][28]
1929	Sartoris	Harcourt, Brace	An abridged version of Flags in the Dust. The original manuscript was published posthumously by Random House in 1973.	[29]
1929	The Sound and the Fury	Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith	First appearance of the Compson family. Faulkner wrote an appendix to the novel, "Compson 1699–1945", for The Portable Faulkner (1946).	[27][30]
1930	As I Lay Dying	Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith		[27]
1931	Sanctuary	Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith		[31]
1932	Light in August	Harrison Smith & Robert Haas		[32]
1935	Pylon	Harrison Smith & Robert Haas	Not set in Yoknapatawpha County	[33][27]
1936	Absalom, Absalom!	Random House	Second novel featuring Quentin Compson, after The Sound and the Fury	[34][35]
1938	The Unvanquished	Random House	A collection of seven interrelated short stories, six of which are revisions of stories previously published in The Saturday Evening Post. "An Odor of Verbena" is original to The Unvanquished.	[36][37]
1939	The Wild Palms	Random House	Two stories, not set in Yoknapatawpha County, intertwined in what Faulkner called "counterpoint" structure. His original title was If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem.	[38][39][36]
1940	The Hamlet	Random House	The first book in Faulkner's Snopes trilogy	[36][40]
1942	Go Down, Moses	Random House	Consisting of interrelated short stories about the McCaslin family, Faulkner regarded it as a novel.	[41][42]
1948	Intruder in the Dust	Random House	Shares characters like Gavin Stevens and Lucas Beauchamp with Go Down Moses	[43][44]
1951	Requiem for a Nun	Random House	Sequel to Sanctuary, written as a play with prose parts preceding each act	[45][46]
1954	A Fable	Random House	Not set in Yoknapatawpha County, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award in 1955	[47][48]
1957	The Town	Random House	The second book in the Snopes trilogy	[49][50]
1959	The Mansion	Random House	The third book in the Snopes trilogy	[51][50]
1962	The Reivers	Random House	Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1963	[51][23]
1973	Flags in the Dust	Random House	Original manuscript of what became Sartoris, prior to extensive editing	[52]

Short stories

Faulkner as a cadet in the Royal Canadian Air Force, 1918

During his time in New Orleans, Faulkner lived in a house in the French Quarter (pictured center yellow), where he wrote the "New Orleans Sketches".^[53]

Faulkner's home, Rowan Oak

Short stories by William Faulkner

Year	Title	First published in	Collected in	Notes	Ref.
1919	"Landing in Luck"	The Mississippian	Early Prose and Poetry		[54]
1922	"The Hill"	The Mississippian	Early Prose and Poetry		[55]
1922	"Nympholepsy"	The Mississippian	Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner		[56]
1925	"New Orleans"	The Double Dealer	New Orleans Sketches	The name "New Orleans Sketches" applies to several sketches published in the same issue of The Double Dealer.	[57]
1925	"Frankie and Johnny"	Mississippi Quarterly	Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner	One of the previous New Orleans Sketches; later rewritten as "The Kid Learns"	[54]
1925	"Chartres Street"	The Times-Picayune	New Orleans Sketches		[58]
1925	"Damon and Pythias Unlimited"	The Times-Picayune	New Orleans Sketches		[58]
1925	"Home"	The Times-Picayune	New Orleans Sketches		[54]
1925	"Jealousy"	The Times-Picayune	New Orleans Sketches		[54]
1925	"Cheest"	The Times-Picayune	New Orleans Sketches		[58]
1925	"Out of Nazareth"	The Times-Picayune	New Orleans Sketches		[56]
1925	"The Kingdom of God"	The Times-Picayune	New Orleans Sketches		[54]
1925	"The Rosary"	The Times-Picayune	New Orleans Sketches		[59]
1925	"The Cobbler"	The Times-Picayune	New Orleans Sketches		[58]
1925	"Chance"	The Times-Picayune	New Orleans Sketches		[58]
1925	"Sunset"	The Times-Picayune	New Orleans Sketches		[59]
1925	"The Kid Learns"	The Times-Picayune	New Orleans Sketches		[54]
1925	"Liar"	The Times-Picayune	New Orleans Sketches		[54]
1925	"Episode"	The Times-Picayune	New Orleans Sketches		[54]
1925	"Country Mice"	The Times-Picayune	New Orleans Sketches		[58]
1925	"Yo Ho and Two Bottles of Rum"	The Times-Picayune	New Orleans Sketches		[60]
1930	"A Rose for Emily"	The Forum	These 13 The Portable Faulkner The Collected Stories of William Faulkner		[61]
1930	"Honor"	The American Mercury	Dr. Martino and Other Stories The Collected Stories of William Faulkner		[54]
1930	"Thrift"	The Saturday Evening Post	Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner		[61]
1930	"Red Leaves"	The Saturday Evening Post	These 13 The Portable Faulkner The Collected Stories of William Faulkner		[62]
1931	"Dry September"	Scribner's Magazine	These 13 The Collected Stories of William Faulkner		[63]
1931	"That Evening Sun"	The American Mercury	These 13 The Portable Faulkner The Collected Stories of William Faulkner		[64]
1931	"Ad Astra"	American Caravan	These 13 The Portable Faulkner The Collected Stories of William Faulkner		[65]
1931	"Hair"	The American Mercury	These 13 The Collected Stories of William Faulkner		[54]
1931	"Spotted Horses"	Scribner's Magazine	The Portable Faulkner Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner	Later revised and incorporated into the novel The Hamlet	[59]
1931	"The Hound"	Scribner's Magazine	Dr. Martino and Other Stories Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner	Later revised and incorporated into the novel The Hamlet	[66]
1931	"Fox Hunt"	Harper's Magazine	Dr. Martino and Other Stories The Collected Stories of William Faulkner		[54]
1931	"Victory"	—	These 13 The Collected Stories of William Faulkner		[60]
1931	"All the Dead Pilots"	—	These 13 The Collected Stories of William Faulkner		[58]
1931	"Crevasse"	—	These 13 The Collected Stories of William Faulkner		[67][58]
1931	"A Justice"	—	These 13 The Collected Stories of William Faulkner		[68]
1931	"Mistral"	—	These 13 The Collected Stories of William Faulkner		[69]
1931	"Divorce in Naples"	—	These 13 The Collected Stories of William Faulkner		[58]
1931	"Carcassonne"	—	These 13 The Collected Stories of William Faulkner		[58]
1931	"Dr. Martino"	—	Dr. Martino and Other Stories The Collected Stories of William Faulkner		[70]
1931	"Idyll in the Desert"	Random House	Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner	Published in a limited edition run of 400 copies	[54]
1932	"Miss Zilphia Gant"	Book Club of Texas	Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner	Published in a print run of 300 copies	[56]
1932	"Death Drag"	Scribner's Magazine	Dr. Martino and Other Stories The Portable Faulkner The Collected Stories of William Faulkner		[66]
1932	"Centaur in Brass"	The American Mercury	The Collected Stories of William Faulkner		[58]
1932	"Once Aboard the Lugger (I)"	Contempo	Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner		[56]
1932	"Lizards in Jamshyd's Courtyard"	The Saturday Evening Post	Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner	Later revised and incorporated into the novel The Hamlet	[71]
1932	"Turn About"	The Saturday Evening Post	Dr. Martino and Other Stories The Collected Stories of William Faulkner		[60]
1932	"Smoke"	Harper's Magazine	Dr. Martino and Other Stories Knight's Gambit		[59]
1932	"Mountain Victory"	The Saturday Evening Post	Dr. Martino and Other Stories The Collected Stories of William Faulkner		[72]
1933	"There Was a Queen"	Scribner's Magazine	Dr. Martino and Other Stories The Collected Stories of William Faulkner		[59]
1933	"Artist at Home"	Story	The Collected Stories of William Faulkner		[58]
1933	"Beyond"	The Saturday Evening Post	Dr. Martino and Other Stories The Collected Stories of William Faulkner		[73]
1934	"Elly"	Story	Dr. Martino and Other Stories The Collected Stories of William Faulkner		[54]
1934	"Pennsylvania Station"	The American Mercury	The Collected Stories of William Faulkner		[56]
1934	"Wash"	Harper's Magazine	Dr. Martino and Other Stories The Portable Faulkner The Collected Stories of William Faulkner		[74]
1934	"A Bear Hunt"	The Saturday Evening Post	The Collected Stories of William Faulkner Big Woods		[54]
1934	"The Leg"	—	Dr. Martino and Other Stories The Collected Stories of William Faulkner		[54]
1934	"Black Music"	—	Dr. Martino and Other Stories The Collected Stories of William Faulkner		[58]
1934	"Mule in the Yard"	Scribner's Magazine	The Collected Stories of William Faulkner		[75]
1934	"Ambuscade"	The Saturday Evening Post	Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner	Later revised and incorporated into the novel The Unvanquished	[76]
1934	"Retreat"	The Saturday Evening Post	Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner		[56]
1934	"Lo!"	Story	The Collected Stories of William Faulkner		[56]
1934	"Raid"	The Saturday Evening Post	The Portable Faulkner Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner	Later revised and incorporated into the novel The Unvanquished	[59]
1935	"Skirmish at Sartoris"	Scribner's Magazine	Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner	Originally titled "Drusilla", renamed when it was revised and incorporated into the novel The Unvanquished	[59]
1935	"Golden Land"	The American Mercury	The Collected Stories of William Faulkner		[54]
1935	"That Will Be Fine"	The American Mercury	The Collected Stories of William Faulkner		[59]
1935	"Uncle Willy"	The American Mercury	The Collected Stories of William Faulkner		[60]
1935	"Lion"	Harper's Magazine	Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner	Later revised and incorporated into the novel Go Down, Moses	[54]
1936	"The Brooch"	Scribner's Magazine	The Collected Stories of William Faulkner		[58]
1936	"Two Dollar Wife"	College Life	Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner		[77]
1936	"Fool About a Horse"	Scribner's Magazine	Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner	Later revised and incorporated into the novel The Hamlet	[54]
1936	"The Unvanquished"	The Saturday Evening Post	Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner	Later revised and incorporated into the novel The Unvanquished as "Riposte in Tertio"	[59]
1936	"Vendee"	The Saturday Evening Post	Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner	Later revised and incorporated into the novel The Unvanquished	[60]
1937	"Monk"	Scribner's Magazine	Knight's Gambit		[56]
1939	"Barn Burning"	Scribner's Magazine	The Collected Stories of William Faulkner	Later revised and incorporated into the novel The Hamlet	[58]
1939	"Hand Upon the Waters"	The Saturday Evening Post	Knight's Gambit		[54]
1940	"A Point of Law"	Collier's	Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner	Later revised and incorporated into the novel Go Down, Moses	[56]
1940	"The Old People"	Harper's Magazine	Big Woods Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner	Later revised and incorporated into the novel Go Down, Moses and included in Big Woods	[56]
1940	"Pantaloon in Black"	Harper's Magazine	Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner	Later revised and incorporated into the novel Go Down, Moses	[54]
1940	"Gold Is Not Always"	Atlantic Monthly	Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner		[54]
1940	"Tomorrow"	The Saturday Evening Post	Knight's Gambit		[60]
1941	"Go Down, Moses"	Collier's	Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner	Later revised and incorporated into the novel Go Down, Moses	[54]
1941	"The Tall Men"	The Saturday Evening Post	The Collected Stories of William Faulkner		[59]
1942	"Two Soldiers"	The Saturday Evening Post	The Collected Stories of William Faulkner		[60]
1942	"Delta Autumn"	Story	The Portable Faulkner Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner	Later revised and incorporated into the novel Go Down, Moses	[58]
1942	"The Bear"	The Saturday Evening Post	The Portable Faulkner Big Woods Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner	Revised and incorporated into the novel Go Down, Moses and included in both The Portable Faulkner and Big Woods	[78]
1943	"Afternoon of a Cow"	Fontaine	Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner	Later revised and incorporated into the novel The Hamlet; originally published in French	[65]
1943	"Shingles for the Lord"	The Saturday Evening Post	The Collected Stories of William Faulkner		[59]
1943	"My Grandmother Millard and General Bedford Forrest and the Battle of Harrykin Creek"	Story	The Collected Stories of William Faulkner		[79]
1943	"Shall Not Perish"	Story	The Collected Stories of William Faulkner		[59]
1946	"An Error in Chemistry"	Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine	Knight's Gambit		[54]
1948	"A Courtship"	Sewanee Review	The Collected Stories of William Faulkner		[58]
1949	"Knight's Gambit"	—	Knight's Gambit	A shorter version remains unpublished.	[54]
1950	"A Name for the City"	Harper's Magazine	—	Revised version used for Act I prologue of Requiem for a Nun	[80]
1951	"Notes on a Horsethief"	Levee Press	—	Also published in Vogue in 1954 and incorporated into A Fable (1954)	[81]
1954	"Mississippi"	Holiday	William Faulkner: Stories		[56]
1954	"Sepulture South: Gaslight"	Harper's Bazaar	Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner		[59]
1955	"Race at Morning"	The Saturday Evening Post	Big Woods Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner	Revised for inclusion in Big Woods	[59]
1955	"By the People"	Mademoiselle	—	Incorporated into chapter 13 of The Mansion	[82]
1962	"Hell Creek Crossing"	The Saturday Evening Post	—	20 page excerpt from a draft of The Reivers	[83]
1965	"Mr. Acarius"	The Saturday Evening Post	Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner		[56]
1967	"The Wishing Tree"	Random House	—	Faulkner's only children's book, written in 1927	[84]
1971	"Al Jackson"	William Faulkner und die humoristiche Tradition des amerikanischen Südens	Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner		[65]
1973	"And Now What's To Do"	Mississippi Quarterly	—		[58]
1976	"Music – Sweeter than the Angels Sing"	Southern Review	—		[56]
1976	"The Priest"	Mississippi Quarterly	Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner		[59]
1976	"Mayday"	University of Notre Dame Press	—		[56]
1979	"Don Giovanni"	Mississippi Quarterly	Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner		[54]
1979	"Peter"	—	Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner		[56]
1979	"A Portrait of Elmer"	The Georgia Review	Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner		[59]
1979	"Adolescence"	—	Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner		[58]
1979	"Snow"	—	Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner		[59]
1979	"Moonlight"	—	Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner		[56]
1979	"With Caution and Dispatch"	Esquire	Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner		[60]
1979	"Hog Pawn"	—	Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner	Revised and incorporated into the novel The Mansion as the fourteenth chapter	[85]
1979	"A Dangerous Man"	—	Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner		[58]
1979	"A Return"	—	Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner		[59]
1979	"The Big Shot"	—	Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner	An alternate version without the Popeye plot (titled "Dull Tale") was not published.	[86]
1979	"Once Aboard the Lugger (II)"	—	Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner		[56]
1979	"Evangeline"	The Atlantic	Uncollected Stories of William Faulkner	Written around 1931	[87]
1988	"Love"	The Missouri Review	—	Written around 1921	[88]
1995	"Christmas Tree"	The Yale Review	—	Written around 1921 but rediscovered at the Rosenbach Museum and Library in 1970	[89]
1995	"Rose of Lebanon"	The Oxford American	—	Written in 1930 but rejected by literary magazines, reworked into "A Return" in 1938	[90]
1999	"Lucas Beauchamp"	Virginia Quarterly Review	—	1948 excerpt of Intruder in the Dust reworked into short story. The extent of Faulkner's involvement is unclear.	[91]

Theatre

Plays by William Faulkner

Year	Title	Notes	Ref.
1921	Marionettes	Unpublished one-act play, written at the University of Mississippi	[92]

Screenplays

Produced

1933's Today We Live, directed by Howard Hawks and starring Gary Cooper and Joan Crawford,^[93] was the first film adapted from one of Faulkner's works.

Faulkner was an uncredited screenplay writer for Gunga Din (1939).

Faulkner co-wrote the 1946 adaptation (pictured) of Ernest Hemingway's novel To Have and Have Not. It remains the only film with contributions from two Nobel Prize Laureates.^[94]

Faulkner co-wrote the Howard Hawks-directed The Big Sleep (1946).

Lucas Beauchamp (portrayed by Juano Hernandez) in the 1949 Intruder in the Dust film adaptation

Produced screenplays by William Faulkner

Year	Film	Credit type	Based on	Ref.
1933	Today We Live	Dialogue and story	"Turn About" by William Faulkner	[95]
1935	Banjo on My Knee	Uncredited	Banjo on my Knee by Harry Hamilton	[96][97]
1936	The Road to Glory	Screenplay	—	[98]
1936	The Petrified Forest	Uncredited, screenplay	The Petrified Forest by Robert E. Sherwood	[99]
1937	Slave Ship	Story	The Last Slaver by George S. King	[100]
1938	Submarine Patrol	Uncredited, screenplay	Ray Milholland's The Splinter Fleet of Otranto Barrage, 20th Century-Fox	[101]
1939	Gunga Din	Uncredited, treatment and dialogue revision	"Gunga Din" by Rudyard Kipling	[102]
1939	Drums Along the Mohawk	Uncredited contributor	Drums Along the Mohawk by Walter D. Edmonds	[103]
1943	Northern Pursuit	Screenplay	To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway	[104]
1944	To Have and Have Not	Screenplay	To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway	[105]
1945	The Southerner	Uncredited	Hold Autumn in Your Hand by George Sessions Perry	[106]
1945	Mildred Pierce	Contract writer, uncredited	Mildred Pierce by James M. Cain	[107][108]
1946	The Big Sleep	Screenplay	The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler	[109][110]
1947	Stallion Road	Uncredited, screenplay	Stephen Longstreet's eponymous novel, for Warner Bros.	[111]
1949	Intruder in the Dust	Uncredited	Intruder in the Dust by Faulkner, suggestions and revisions may have been wholly rejected	[112]
1953	Shall not Perish	Television screenplay	To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway, broadcast by CBS on Lux Video Theatre	[112]
1955	Land of the Pharaohs	Screenplay	—	[113]
1955	The Left Hand of God	Uncredited, screenplay	The Left Hand of God by William Edmund Barrett	[114]

Unproduced

Unproduced screenplays by William Faulkner

Year	Title	Type	Notes	Ref.
1932	Night Bird	Story outline for unwritten screenplay	Included in Faulkner's MGM Screenplays, published in October 1982 by University of Tennessee Press.	[115]
1932	Manservant	Treatment for unwritten screenplay	Based on Faulkner's short story "Love". Included in Faulkner's MGM Screenplays.	[116]
1932	The College Widow	Treatment for unwritten screenplay	For MGM	[117]
1932	Absolution	Treatment for unwritten screenplay	For MGM, based on Faulkner's "All the Dead Pilots"	[117]
1932	Flying the Mail	Screenplay	Adapted from treatment by Ralph Graves and Bernard Fineman for MGM	[117]
1933	War Birds	Screenplay	For MGM, based on John McGavock Grider's War Birds as well as Faulkner's "All the Dead Pilots", "Ad Astra", and Sartoris	[118]
1933	"Mythical Latin-American Kingdom Story"	Screenplay	Written for MGM	[118]
1933	Louisiana Lou	Screenplay	Used for the 1934 film Lazy River without Faulkner's involvement.	[119]
1936	Wooden Crosses	Screenplay	For 20th Century-Fox	[120]
1936	Zero Hour	Screenplay	For 20th Century-Fox	[120]
c. 1940s	Dreadful Hollow	Screenplay	Written for Howard Hawks	[114]
Early 1940s	Untitled	Screenplay	Involves a love triangle and murder at a carnival in Belgrade, Serbia, written with Dudley Murphy for Warner Bros., loose adaptation of Faulkner's "Wash" and Absalom! Absalom!	[121]
1941	The Damned Don't Cry	Screenplay	Adaptation of Harry Hervey's 1939 novel of the same name	[122]
1942	The De Gaulle Story	Screenplay		[123]
1943	Country Lawyer	Story treatment	Adaptation of Bellamy Partridge's novel, albeit with the setting moved to Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County, included in Country Lawyer and Other Stories for the Screen, published in June 1987 by University Press of Mississippi.	[124]
1943	Battle Cry	Screenplay	Epic World War II film for which Warner Bros. denied director Howard Hawks funding, appears in Faulkner: A Comprehensive Guide to the Brodsky Collection, Volume IV: Battle Cry, published in December 1985 by University Press of Mississippi.	[125]
1943	Revolt in the Earth	Screenplay	Written with Dudley Murphy for Warner Bros., loose adaptation of Faulkner's "Wash" and Absalom! Absalom!	[105]
1943	The Life and Death of a Bomber	Screenplay	Patriotic film written to provide positive publicity for Consolidated Aircraft	[126]
1946	One Way to Catch a Horse	Treatment		[111]
1946	Continuous Performance	Treatment	Collaborated with unknown person	[111]
c. 1948	Morningstar	Treatment	Concerns an interplanetary trip to Venus, discussed project with Howard Hawks	[127]
1953	Old Man	Television screenplay	Adaptation of the "Old Man" chapter in Wild Palms	[128]
1956	Untitled	Television screenplay	Concerns a conflicted man forced to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee	[129]
—	Untitled	Screenplay notes	Largely illegible, concerns a woman who buys a love potion	[129]

Poetry collections

Poetry collections by William Faulkner

Year	Title	Publisher	Notes	Ref.
1921	Vision in Spring	University of Mississippi	Published in the 1920–1921 Ole Miss yearbook	[130]
1924	The Marble Faun	Four Seas	His first book published	[131]
1933	A Green Bough	Harrison Smith and Robert Haas		[132]
1962	Early Prose and Poetry	Little, Brown and Company	Compiled and edited by Carvel Collins, most had previously appeared in the Ole Miss student newspaper	[132][133]
1981	Helen, a Courtship and Mississippi Poems	Tulane University Press & Yoknapatawpha Press	Joint publication	[134]

Essays

Faulkner's final essay was on Albert Camus, who adapted Faulkner's 1951 novel Requiem for a Nun for the stage.^[135]

Essays by William Faulkner

Year	Title	Notes	Ref.
1953	"A Note On Sherwood Anderson"		[136]
1954	"Mississippi"		[137]
1954	"A Guest's Impression of New England"		[137]
1955	"An Innocent at Rinkside"		[137]
1955	"Kentucky: May: Saturday"		[137]
1955	"On Privacy"	With "On Fear", was part of larger unrealized essay collection "The American Dream"	[138]
1955	"Impressions of Japan"		[137]
1955	"To the Youth of Japan"		[137]
1956	"Letter to a Northern Editor"		[137]
1956	"On Fear: Deep South in Labor: Mississippi"	See "On Privacy"	[138]
1956	"A Letter to the Leaders in the Negro Race"		[137]
1961	"Albert Camus"		[137]

Book reviews

Faulkner wrote a review of Ernest Hemingway's (pictured right) The Old Man and the Sea (1952).

Book reviews by William Faulkner

Year	Book reviewed	Author	Published in	Ref.
1931	The Road Back	Erich Maria Remarque	The New Republic	[139][140]
1935	Test Pilot	Jimmy Collins	American Mercury	[139][140]
1952	The Old Man and the Sea	Ernest Hemingway	Shenandoah	[140]

Introductions

Introductions by William Faulkner

Year	Title	Ref.
1926	Foreword to Sherwood Anderson & Other Famous Creoles	[139]
1932	Introduction to the Modern Library Edition of Sanctuary	[139]
1954	Foreword to The Faulkner Reader	[139]

Public letters

Faulkner wrote a public letter condemning the lynching of Emmett Till. Emmett's mother is pictured above his body.^[141]

Public letters by William Faulkner

Year	Title	Notes	Ref.
1927	To the Book Editor of the Chicago Tribune		[139]
1938	To the President of the League of American Writers		[139]
1941	To the Editor of the Memphis Commercial Appeal		[139]
1946	"His Name Was Pete"	In the Oxford Eagle	[139]
1947	To the Editor of the Oxford Eagle		[139]
1950	To the Editor of the Memphis Commercial Appeal		[142]
1950	To the Editor of the Memphis Commercial Appeal		[142]
1950	To the Secretary of the American Academy of Arts and Letters		[142]
1950	To the Voters of Oxford		[142]
1950	To the Editor of the Oxford Eagle		[142]
1950	To the Editor of the Time		[142]
1951	Statement to the Press on the Willie McGee Case	Published in the Memphis Commercial Appeal	[142]
1954	To the Editor of The New York Times		[142]
1955	To the Editor of the Memphis Commercial Appeal		[142]
1955	To the Editor of the Memphis Commercial Appeal		[142]
1955	To the Editor of The New York Times		[142]
1955	To the Editor of the Memphis Commercial Appeal		[142]
1955	To the Editor of the Memphis Commercial Appeal		[142]
1955	To the Editor of the Memphis Commercial Appeal		[142]
1955	Press Dispatch on the Emmet Till Case	Provided to United Press International	[142][143]
1956	To the Editor of Life		[142]
1956	To the Editor of the Reporter		[142]
1956	To the Editor of Time		[144]
1956	To the Editor of Time		[144]
1956	To the Editor of The New York Times		[144]
1957	To the Editor of Time		[144]
1957	To the Editor of the Memphis Commercial Appeal		[144]
1957	Notice	September 24, published in the Oxford Eagle	[144]
1957	Notice	Published in the Oxford Eagle	[144]
1960	To the Editor of The New York Times		[144]

Speeches

Faulkner arrives in Sweden in 1950 to receive the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature.

"I decline to accept the end of man... I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance."

— Faulkner in his 1950 Nobel Prize acceptance speech^[145]

Speeches by William Faulkner

Year	Title	Notes	Ref.
1940	Funeral Sermon for Mammy Caroline Barr	Barr was a former slave and the "mammy" who had helped raise Faulkner.	[146][147]
1950	Upon Receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature	Although he won the Nobel Prize in 1949, Faulkner accepted the award alongside 1950 Laureate Bertrand Russell in a combined ceremony.	[146][148]
1951	To the Graduating Class, University High School		[146]
1951	Upon Being Made an Officer of the Legion of Honor		[146]
1952	To the Delta Council		[146]
1953	To the Graduating Class, Pine Manor Junior College		[146]
1955	Upon Receiving the National Book Award for Fiction		[146]
1955	To the Southern Historical Association		[146]
1957	Upon Receiving the Silver Medal of the Athens Academy		[146]
1957	To the American Academy of Arts and Letters in Presenting the Gold Medal for Fiction to John Dos Passos		[146]
1958	To the Raven, Jefferson, and ODK Societies of the University of Virginia		[146]
1958	To the English Club of the University of Virginia		[146]
1959	To the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO		[146]
1962	To the American Academy of Arts and Letters upon Receiving the Gold Medal for Fiction		[146]

References

Citations

1. The New York Times (1962).
2. Aiken (1977), pp. 1–3.
3. Watson (2019), pp. 1–2, 20.
4. Levinger 2000.
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7. Fargnoli, Golay & Hamblin (2008), p. 461.
8. Blotner (1974), pp. 140–141.
9. Minter (1980), pp. 59–60, 81, 88, 90–91.
10. Minter (1980), pp. 102–104.
11. Franklin (1967), p. 57.
12. Minter (1980), pp. 105–106.
13. Churchwell (2012).
14. Minter (1980), p. 228.
15. Franklin (1967), pp. 57, 63–65.
16. Kerr (1962), pp. 5–6.
17. Minter (1980), pp. 107–109.
18. Minter (1980), pp. 127–128.
19. Minter (1980), p. 228.
20. Morgan (2012).
21. Kirsch (2014).
22. Blotner (1969).
23. Bracker (1963).
24. Kawin (1977), pp. 1–2.
25. Hogue (1981), pp. 51–52.
26. Kawin (1977), pp. 2–3.
27. Fargnoli, Golay & Hamblin (2008), p. 483.
28. Minter (1980), p. 65.
29. Meriwether (1977), p. 419.
30. Minter (1980), pp. 94–95, 208–209.
31. Fargnoli, Golay & Hamblin (2008), p. 468.
32. Blotner (1974), p. 1 of Notes, Vol. 1.
33. Minter (1980), p. 146.
34. Fargnoli, Golay & Hamblin (2008), p. 470.
35. Ragan (1986), pp. 338–339.
36. Fargnoli, Golay & Hamblin (2008), p. 471.
37. Minter (1980), pp. 145–146.
38. Minter (1980), pp. 171.
39. Jewkes (1961), pp. 39–40, 42–44.
40. Renner (1982), pp. 61–62.
41. Minter (1980), pp. 186, 188.
42. Fargnoli, Golay & Hamblin (2008), p. 472.
43. Minter (1980), pp. 212.
44. Meriwether (1977), p. 423.
45. Minter (1980), pp. 221–222.
46. Fargnoli, Golay & Hamblin (2008), p. 474.
47. Fargnoli, Golay & Hamblin (2008), p. 475.
48. Blotner (1969).
49. Meriwether (1977), pp. 425–426.
50. Renner (1982), p. 62.
51. Fargnoli, Golay & Hamblin (2008), p. 478.
52. Meriwether (1977), pp. 427.
53. Blotner (1974), pp. 127–128, 140–141.
54. Skei (1985), p. 140.
55. Skei (1985), pp. 18, 140.
56. Skei (1985), p. 141.
57. Skei (1985), p. 21.
58. Skei (1985), p. 139.
59. Skei (1985), p. 142.
60. Skei (1985), p. 143.
61. Skei (1985), pp. 68, 142.
62. Skei (1985), p. 64.
63. Blotner (1974), p. 654.
64. Skei (1985), p. 65.
65. Skei (1985), p. 138.
66. Skei (1985), p. 68.
67. Ferguson (1991), p. 150.
68. Skei (1985), pp. 68, 140.
69. Skei (1985), pp. 40, 141.
70. Skei (1985), p. 69.
71. Skei (1985), p. 72.
72. Skei (1985), p. 65.
73. Skei (1985), p. 62.
74. Skei (1985), p. 81.
75. Skei (1985), p. 82.
76. Skei (1985), p. 84.
77. Skei (1985), p. 28.
78. Skei (1985), pp. 97, 131, 139.
79. Skei (1985), pp. 101, 141.
80. Skei (1985), pp. 106, 141.
81. Skei (1985), pp. 103, 141.
82. Skei (1985), pp. 107, 139.
83. Skei (1985), pp. 108, 140.
84. Meriwether (1977), pp. 426–427.
85. Skei (1985), pp. 108, 140.
86. Skei (1985), pp. 123, 139–140.
87. Skei (1985), pp. 69, 140.
88. Faulkner (1988).
89. The New York Times (1995).
90. Meindl (1997), pp. 583–584.
91. Faulkner & Samway (1999), pp. 417–418.
92. Polk (1973), p. 247.
93. Hogue (1981), p. 51.
94. Phillips (1980), p. 50.
95. Hayhoe (1978), pp. 410–411.
96. Blotner (1974), pp. 927–933.
97. Sherman (1936).
98. Kawin (1977), p. 168.
99. Kawin (1977), p. 176.
100. Hayhoe (1978), pp. 413–414.
101. Hayhoe (1978), pp. 414–415.
102. Kawin (1977), p. 169.
103. Kawin (1977), pp. 171–172.
104. Kawin (1977), p. 173.
105. Hayhoe (1978), p. 415.
106. Kawin (1977), pp. 176–177.
107. Blotner (1974), pp. 1172–1175.
108. Welsh (1983), p. 66.
109. Blotner (1974), pp. 1171, 1175–1176.
110. Dougherty (2009), p. 64.
111. Hayhoe (1978), p. 416.
112. Hayhoe (1978), p. 417.
113. Blotner (1974), pp. 1537–1538.
114. Kawin (1977), p. 179.
115. Faulkner (1982), pp. ix, 1, 29.
116. Faulkner (1982), pp. xiv, xxv, 1.
117. Hayhoe (1978), p. 410.
118. Hayhoe (1978), p. 411.
119. Faulkner (1982), pp. ix, 545.
120. Hayhoe (1978), p. 412.
121. Hayhoe (1978), pp. 418–419.
122. Faulkner (1987), p. 9.
123. Hamblin (2001), pp. 79–86.
124. Faulkner (1987), p. 7.
125. Ponder (1983), pp. 96–98.
126. Faulkner (1987), pp. 8-9.
127. Hayhoe (1978), pp. 416–417.
128. Hayhoe (1978), pp. 417–418.
129. Hayhoe (1978), p. 419.
130. Blotner (1974), p. 312.
131. Minter (1980), pp. 44, 257.
132. Tuck (1964), p. 247.
133. Volpe (1964), p. 414.
134. Ragan (1982), p. 337.
135. Dugdale (2009).
136. Faulkner (1953).
137. Faulkner (1965), p. xi.
138. Faulkner (1965), p. vii.
139. Faulkner (1965), p. xiii.
140. Bradford (1965), p. 158.
141. Blotner (1974), pp. 1570–1571.
142. Faulkner (1965), p. xiv.
143. Blotner (1974), p. 1570.
144. Faulkner (1965), p. xv.
145. Faulkner (1950).
146. Faulkner (1965), p. xii.
147. Welling (2001), p. 536.
148. Blotner (1974), pp. 1358–1364.

Works cited

Books

• Blotner, Joseph (1974). Faulkner: A Biography. Random House. ISBN 9780394474526.
• Fargnoli, A. Nicholas; Golay, Michael; Hamblin, Robert W. (2008). Critical Companion to William Faulkner: A Literary Reference to His Life And Work. Facts on File. ISBN 9780816064328.
• Faulkner, William (1965). Essays Speeches & Public Letters. ISBN 9780394423616.
• Faulkner, William (1982). Kawin, Bruce F. (ed.). Faulkner's MGM screenplays. University of Tennessee Press. ISBN 9780870493515.
• Faulkner, William (1987). Brodsky, Louis Daniel; Hamblin, Robert W. (eds.). Country Lawyer and Other Stories for the Screen. University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 9780878053087.
• Ferguson, James (1991). Faulkner's Short Fiction. University of Tennessee Press. ISBN 9780870496950.
• Kawin, Bruce (1977). Faulkner and Film. Frederick Ungar Publishing Co. ISBN 9780804463478.
• Minter, David L. (1980). William Faulkner, His Life and Work. Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 9780801823473.
• Phillips, Gene D. (1980). Hemingway and Film. Frederick Ungar Publishing Co. ISBN 9780804426954.
• Skei, Hans H. (1985). William Faulkner, the Short Story Career : An Outline of Faulkner's Short Story Writing from 1919 to 1962. Universitetsforlaget (distributed by Columbia University Press). ISBN 978-8200058267.
• Tuck, Dorothy (1964). Crowell's Handbook of Faulkner. Crowell. ASIN B0006BM1TG.
• Volpe, Edmond Loris (1964). A Reader's Guide to William Faulkner. Straus. ISBN 9780374503369. {{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)

Journal articles

• Aiken, Charles S. (1977). "Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County: Geographical Fact into Fiction". Geographical Review. 67 (1). American Geographical Society of New York: 1–21. JSTOR 213600.
• Bradford, M.E. (1967). "On The Importance Of Discovering God: Faulkner And Hemingway's The Old Man And The Sea". The Mississippi Quarterly. 20 (3). The Johns Hopkins University Press: 158–162. JSTOR 26473716.
• Dougherty, David C. (2009). "Mr. Elkin and the Movies". New England Review. 30 (2). Middlebury College Publications: 64–73. JSTOR 40245223.
• Faulkner, William (1988). "Love". The Missouri Review. 11 (2): 123–148.
• Faulkner, William; Samway, Patrick (1999). "Lucas Beauchamp: An Unpublished Story". Virginia Quarterly Review. 75 (3): 417–420. JSTOR 26438463.
• Franklin, R.W. (1967). "Narrative Management in "As I Lay Dying"". Modern Fiction Studies. 13 (1): 57–65. JSTOR 26278647.
• Hamblin, Robert W. (2001). "The Curious Case of Faulkner's "The De Gaulle Story"". The Faulkner Journal. 16 (1). The Johns Hopkins University Press: 79–86. JSTOR 24908321.
• Hayhoe, George F. (1978). "Faulkner In Hollywood: A Checklist of His Film Scripts at the University of Virginia". The Mississippi Quarterly. 31 (3). The Johns Hopkins University Press: 407–419. JSTOR 26474384.
• Hogue, Peter (1981). "Hawks and Faulkner: "Today We Live"". Literature/Film Quarterly. 9 (1): 51–58. JSTOR 43796162.
• Jewkes, K.T. (1961). "Counterpoint in Faulkner's "The Wild Palms"". Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature. 2 (1): 39–53. JSTOR 1207367.
• Kerr, Elizabeth M. (1962). ""As I Lay Dying" as Ironic Quest". Wisconsin Studies in Contemporary Literature. 3 (1): 5–19. JSTOR 1207376.
• Meindl, Dieter (1997). ""Rose of Lebanon" and the Faulkner Canon". Amerikastudien/American Studies. 42 (4): 583–590. JSTOR 41157333.
• Meriwether, James B. (1977). "The Books Of William Faulkner: A Guide For Students And Scholars". The Mississippi Quarterly. 30 (3). The Johns Hopkins University Press: 417–428. JSTOR 26474343.
• Polk, Noel (1973). "William Faulkner's "Marionettes"". The Mississippi Quarterly. 26 (3). The Mississippi Quarterly: 247–280. JSTOR 26474043.
• Ponder, Anne (1983). "Review: Faulkner's Screenplays: 'The DeGaulle Story' and 'Battle Cry'". The Southern Literary Journal. 19 (1). University of North Carolina Press: 96–99.
• Ragan, David Paul (1982). "Review of Helen: A Courtship and Mississippi Poems". The Mississippi Quarterly. 35 (3). The Johns Hopkins University Press: 337–342.
• Ragan, David Paul (1986). ""That Tragedy is Second-Hand": Quentin, Henry, and the Ending of "Absalom, Absalom!"". The Mississippi Quarterly. 39 (3): 337–350. JSTOR 26474975.
• Renner, Charlotte (1982). "Talking and Writing in Faulkner's Snopes Trilogy". The Southern Literary Journal. 15 (1): 61–73. JSTOR 20077689.
• Watson, Jay (2019). "So Easy Even a Child Can Do It". The Mississippi Quarterly. 72 (1): 1–23. JSTOR 27279291.
• Welling, Bart H. (2001). "In Praise of the Black Mother: An Unpublished Faulkner Letter on "Mammy" Caroline Barr". The Georgia Review. 55 (3): 536–542. JSTOR 41380685.
• Welsh, J.M. (1983). "Review: "Mildred Pierce" Reshaped". Literature/Film Quarterly. 11 (1). Salibury University: 66–68. JSTOR 43797295.

Magazine, news, and web sources

• "American Topics". The New York Times. International Herald Tribune. February 15, 1995. Archived from the original on May 14, 2025.
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• Dugdale, John (March 19, 2009). "France's strange love affair with William Faulkner". The Guardian. Archived from the original on June 4, 2022. Retrieved June 4, 2022.
• Faulkner, William (December 10, 1950). "Banquet speech". The Nobel Prize. The Nobel Foundation. Archived from the original on May 1, 2025. Retrieved April 17, 2025.
• Faulkner, William (June 1953). "Sherwood Anderson". Vanity Fair. Archived from the original on December 25, 2022. Retrieved December 25, 2022.
• Kirsch, Adam (January–February 2014). "Made in the U.S.A." Harvard Magazine. Archived from the original on November 11, 2020. Retrieved December 23, 2020.
• Levinger, Larry (2000). "The Prophet Faulkner". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on May 11, 2025. Retrieved May 21, 2025.
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