William Faulkner bibliography
Faulkner photographed in December 1954 by Carl Van Vechten. | ||
Releases | ||
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↙Novels | 19 | |
↙Stories | 125 | |
↙Plays | 1 | |
↙Screenplays | 20 | |
References and footnotes |
The bibliography of William Faulkner, an American writer, includes 19 novels, 125 short stories (not including stories that appear exclusively in novels), 20 screenplays (including uncredited rewrites), one play, six collections of poetry as well as assorted letters and essays.
William Faulkner made his debut as a published writer at the age of 21 with the poem "L'Après-midi d'un Faune", which appeared in The New Republic on August 6, 1919. Two more poems, "Cathay" and "Sapphics" and a short story, "Landing in Luck", were published in Mississippian in November 1919.[1]
Faulkner's first novel, Soldiers' Pay, was published in 1926 and his 19th and final, The Reivers, in 1962, the year he died. Numerous works have been published posthumously.
Fiction
Novels
Title | Publication date | Publisher | Notes | |
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Soldiers' Pay | February 25, 1926 | Boni & Liveright | Faulkner's debut novel.[2] | |
Mosquitoes | April 30, 1927 | Boni & Liveright | [2] | |
Sartoris | January 31, 1929 | Harcourt, Brace | First novel set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County; an abridged version of Flags in the Dust. The original manuscript was published posthumously by Random House on August 22, 1973.[3] | |
The Sound and the Fury | October 7, 1929 | Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith | An appendix to the novel, "Compson 1699-1945", was included in The Portable Faulkner, edited by Malcolm Cowley and published by Viking Press in 1946.[2][4] | |
As I Lay Dying | October 6, 1930 | Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith | [2] | |
Sanctuary | February 9, 1931 | Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith | An introduction to the novel by Faulkner was first included in the Modern Library edition of the novel published on March 25, 1932.[5][6] | |
Light in August | October 6, 1932 | Harrison Smith & Robert Haas | A Foreword to the novel by novelist C.E. Morgan has been included in the Modern Library edition of the novel published in April 2012 | |
Pylon | March 25, 1935 | Harrison Smith & Robert Haas | First novel since Mosquitoes not to be set in Yoknapatawpha County.[2] | |
Absalom, Absalom! | October 26, 1936 | Random House | [7] | |
The Unvanquished | February 15, 1938 | 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 new to The Unvanquished.[8][9] | |
The Wild Palms | January 19, 1939 | Random House | Not set in Yoknapatawpha County. Consists of two interweaved stories: "The Wild Palms" and "Old Man". Included as If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem, Faulkner's original title, in the Library of America collection Novels 1936-1940, published in 1990. Sometimes published as The Wild Palms [If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem].[8] | |
The Hamlet | April 1, 1940 | Random House | The first book in Faulkner's Snopes trilogy.[8] | |
Go Down, Moses | May 11, 1942 | Random House | Contains seven interrelated short stories, five of which had been published previously. "Was" and "The Fire and the Hearth" are exclusive to the novel. Title changed to Go Down, Moses, Faulkner's intended title, for subsequent editions.[10] | |
Intruder in the Dust | September 27, 1948 | Random House | [11] | |
Requiem for a Nun | September 27, 1951 | Random House | Sequel to Sanctuary. Written as a play with prose parts preceding each act.[12] | |
A Fable | August 2, 1954 | Random House | Not set in Yoknapatawpha County. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award in 1955.[13][14] | |
The Town | May 1, 1957 | Random House | The second book in Faulkner's Snopes trilogy.[15] | |
The Mansion | November 13, 1959 | Random House | The third book in Faulkner's Snopes trilogy.[16] | |
The Reivers | June 4, 1962 | Random House | Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1963.[16][17] | |
Library of America editions
To date, Library of America has published all of Faulkner's novels in five volumes, containing restored authoritative texts.
- Novels 1926–1929, containing Soldiers' Pay, Mosquitoes, Flags in the Dust, The Sound and the Fury (ISBN 978-1931082891, 1170 pages, published April 6, 2006)
- Novels 1930–1935, containing As I Lay Dying, Sanctuary, Light in August, Pylon (ISBN 978-0940450264, 1056 pages, published December 1, 1985)
- Novels 1936–1940, containing Absalom, Absalom!, The Unvanquished, If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem, The Hamlet (ISBN 978-0940450554, 1148 pages, published June 1, 1990)
- Novels 1942–1954, containing Go Down, Moses, Intruder in the Dust, Requiem for a Nun, A Fable (ISBN 978-0940450851, 1110 pages, published October 1, 1994)
- Novels 1957–1962, containing The Town, The Mansion, The Reivers (ISBN 978-1883011697, 1020 pages, published October 1, 1999)
Short stories
See also: Collected Stories of William Faulkner
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Plays
- Marionettes (one-act play, first produced at the University of Mississippi on March 4, 1921[19])
- Requiem for a Nun
Screenplays
Produced
Year | Film[20] | Credit type | Collaborator(s) | Based on |
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1933 | Today We Live | Dialogue | Edith Fitzgerald (screenplay) Dwight Taylor (screenplay) |
"Turn About" by William Faulkner |
1936 | The Road to Glory | Screenplay | Joel Sayre (screenplay) Stephen Morehouse Avery (uncredited) Walter Ferris (uncredited) Violet Kemble Cooper (uncredited) |
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Banjo on my Knee | Uncredited[19] | Nunnally Johnson (screenplay) | Banjo on my Knee by Harry Hamilton | |
1937 | Slave Ship | Story | Sam Hellman (screenplay) Lamar Trotti (screenplay) Gladys Lehman (screenplay) Walter Ferris (revisions) |
The Last Slaver by George S. King |
1939 | Gunga Din | Uncredited[19] | Joel Sayre (screenplay) Fred Guiol (screenplay) Ben Hecht (story) Charles MacArthur (story) Lester Cohen (uncredited) John Colton (uncredited) Vincent Lawrence (uncredited) Dudley Nichols (uncredited) Anthony Veiller (uncredited) |
"Gunga Din" by Rudyard Kipling |
1944 | To Have and Have Not | Screenplay | Jules Furthman (screenplay) Cleve F. Abams (uncredited) Whitman Chambers (uncredited) |
To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway |
1945 | The Southerner | Uncredited[19] | Jean Renoir (screenplay) Hugo Butler (screenplay) Nunnally Johnson (uncredited) |
Hold Autumn in Your Hand by George Sessions Perry |
1946 | The Big Sleep | Screenplay | Leigh Brackett (screenplay) Jules Furthman (screenplay) |
The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler |
1955 | Land of the Pharaohs | Written by | Harry Kurnitz (written by) Harold Jack Bloom (written by) |
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Unproduced
Year | Title | Type | Notes[20] |
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1932 | Night Bird | Story outline for unwritten screenplay | Included in Faulkner's MGM Screenplays, published in October 1982 by University of Tennessee Press. |
1932 | Manservant | Treatment for unwritten screenplay | Based on Faulkner's short story "Love". Included in Faulkner's MGM Screenplays. |
1932 | The College Widow | Treatment for unwritten screenplay | Based on Night Bird. Included in Faulkner's MGM Screenplays. |
1932 | Absolution | Treatment for unwritten screenplay | Included in Faulkner's MGM Screenplays. |
1932 | Flying in the Mail | Treatment for unwritten screenplay | |
1933 | War Birds | Screenplay | |
1933 | Louisiana Lou | Screenplay | Used for the 1934 film Lazy River without Faulkner's involvement. |
1942 | The De Gaulle Story | Screenplay | Appears in Faulkner: A Comprehensive Guide to the Brodsky Collection, Volume III: The De Gaulle Story, published in January 1984 by University Press of Mississippi. |
1943 | Country Lawyer | Story treatment | Included in Country Lawyer and Other Stories for the Screen, published in June 1987 by University Press of Mississippi. |
1943 | Battle Cry | Screenplay | Appears in Faulkner: A Comprehensive Guide to the Brodsky Collection, Volume IV: Battle Cry, published in December 1985 by University Press of Mississippi. |
1945 | Stallion Road | Screenplay | Appears in Stallion Road: A Screenplay, published in December 1989 by University Press of Mississippi. |
Poetry collections
- Vision in Spring (1921)[21]
- The Marble Faun (1924)[21]
- This Earth, a Poem (1932)[21]
- A Green Bough (1933)[21]
- Mississippi Poems (1979)[21]
- Helen, a Courtship and Mississippi Poems (1981)[21]
References
- ↑ Fargnoli, Golay & Hamblin 2008, p. 461.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Fargnoli, Golay & Hamblin 2008, p. 483.
- ↑ Padgett, John B. (2000). "WFotW ~ Flags in the Dust: COMMENTARY". William Faulkner on the Web. The University of Mississippi. Retrieved 2011-06-21. External link in
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(help) - ↑ Padgett, John B. (2000). "WFotW ~ The Portable Faulkner (Short Story Collections)". William Faulkner on the Web. The University of Mississippi. Retrieved 2011-06-21.
- ↑ Fargnoli, Golay & Hamblin 2008, p. 468.
- ↑ Padgett, John B. (2000). "WFotW ~ Sanctuary: COMMENTARY". William Faulkner on the Web. The University of Mississippi. Retrieved 2011-06-21.
- ↑ Fargnoli, Golay & Hamblin 2008, p. 470.
- 1 2 3 Fargnoli, Golay & Hamblin 2008, p. 471.
- ↑ Padgett, John B. (2000). "WFotW ~ The Unvanquished: COMMENTARY". William Faulkner on the Web. The University of Mississippi. Retrieved 2011-06-21.
- ↑ Fargnoli, Golay & Hamblin 2008, p. 472.
- ↑ Padgett, John B. (2000). "WFotW ~ Intruder in the Dust: COMMENTARY". William Faulkner on the Web. The University of Mississippi. Retrieved 2011-06-21.
- ↑ Fargnoli, Golay & Hamblin 2008, p. 474.
- ↑ Fargnoli, Golay & Hamblin 2008, p. 475.
- ↑ Padgett, John B. (2000). "WFotW ~ A Fable: COMMENTARY". William Faulkner on the Web. The University of Mississippi. Retrieved 2011-06-21.
- ↑ Padgett, John B. (2000). "WFotW ~ The Town: COMMENTARY". William Faulkner on the Web. The University of Mississippi. Retrieved 2011-06-21.
- 1 2 Fargnoli, Golay & Hamblin 2008, p. 478.
- ↑ Padgett, John B. (2000). "WFotW ~ The Reivers: COMMENTARY". William Faulkner on the Web. The University of Mississippi. Retrieved 2011-06-21.
- ↑ Popova, Maria (28 Dec 2012), "The Strange Story of William Faulkner's Only Children's Book", Brain pickings.
- 1 2 3 4 Padgett, John B. (2000). "WFotW ~ Works by William Faulkner (comprehensive list)". William Faulkner on the Web. The University of Mississippi. Retrieved 2011-06-21.
- 1 2 Fargnoli, Golay & Hamblin 2008, p. 494–95.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Padgett, John B. (2000). "WFotW ~ Works by William Faulkner (comprehensive list)". William Faulkner on the Web. The University of Mississippi. Retrieved 2011-06-21.
Bibliography
- Fargnoli, A. Nicholas; Golay, Michael; Hamblin, Robert W. (2008). Critical Companion to William Faulkner: A Literary Reference to His Life And Work. Critical Companion. New York City: Facts on File. ISBN 978-0-8160-6432-8.
- Kirk, Robert W.; Klotz, Marvin (1965). Faulkner's People: A complete guide and index to the characters and fiction of William Faulkner. Los Angeles: University of California Press.