@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social"It takes two people to make you, and one people to die. That's how the world is going to end."
đź“– #OTD in the #History of #Literature 6 October 1930, #WilliamFaulkner's Southern Gothic masterpiece AS I LAY DYING was published by Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith, New York.
@paulinepark.bsky.social#WilliamFaulkner was born #OnThisDay in 1897, one of the great American novelists, writing "The Sound and the Fury" (1929), "As I Lay Dying" (1930) & "Absalom, Absalom" (1936); more than perhaps any other American novelist, he recognized the weight of the past...
@fredakarpf.bsky.socialHappy B day William Faulkner, b1897 MS .. wrote by hand then typed his novels - in a 4 yr span, he pubd Sartoris (1929), The Sound & the Fury (1929), As I Lay Dying (1930), Sanctuary (1931), & Light in August (1932). He won the Nobel Prize in 1949 literature.#WilliamFaulkner
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@themadsonneteer.bsky.social“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world… would do this, it would change the earth.” - #WilliamFaulkner (born: 25 September 1897)
@writers-write.bsky.socialWilliam Faulkner's birthday is 25 September. To mark the occasion, discover 10 things the Nobel Prize-winning author had to say about writing, reading, characters, imagination, and finding time to write. #williamfaulkner #botd #authorbirthday #writingsky
@djp1974.bsky.socialNo battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
@faulknerstudiesuk.bsky.socialHappy 129th birthday, Ole Bill! Wherever you are, I hope the tobacco and whiskey are plentiful! #WilliamFaulkner
@purattu.bsky.social25 Eylül 1897’de New Albany, Mississippi’de doğan William Faulkner, Amerikan edebiyatının en güçlü modernistlerinden biri oldu.
#WilliamFaulkner #TheSoundAndTheFury #AsILayDying #LightInAugust #AbsalomAbsalom #GoDownMoses #AmericanLiterature #Modernism #SouthernGothic
@nathanfrancis79.bsky.social"The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past."
âś’ #WilliamFaulkner, American novelist, short story writer, and Nobel Laureate 1949, was #BOTD 25 September 1897. #Literature
@paulinepark.bsky.socialFrancesco Borromini (1599), Claude Perrault (1613), Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683), Qianlong emperor of Qing China (1711), Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia (1744) #WilliamFaulkner (1897), Barbara Walters (1929), Glenn Gould (1932), Adolfo Suárez (1933) & Christopher Reeve (1952) were born #OnThisDay...
@soldesignarchive.bsky.socialLight in August
André François · Penguin Books
United Kingdom, 1964
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#AndréFrançois #WilliamFaulkner #graphicdesign #typography #illustration #book #bookcover
@pipster18.bsky.socialWednesday's Words of Wisdom. #LyonStrategic #WilliamFaulkner
@plkleinauthor.bsky.social"Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed." ~ #WilliamFaulkner
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