William Faulkner’s 1955 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is A Fable.
Published in 1954, A Fable is set largely during World War I and reworks elements of the Passion narrative in a military and political setting. Its central story concerns soldiers who resist the machinery of war, while officers and governments confront the threat that such resistance poses to authority.
The novel was a major project for Faulkner and differs in style and structure from the Southern family sagas for which he is often best known. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1955, adding to Faulkner’s earlier Pulitzer victory for The Reivers in 1963 only in the broader chronology of his recognition—A Fable was his first Pulitzer win.
A common mix-up is to identify The Sound and the Fury as Faulkner’s Pulitzer winner. That influential 1929 novel received no Pulitzer; A Fable is the title associated with his 1955 award.