Which Nobel Prize in Literature laureate won in 1949 and wrote The Sound and the Fury?

William Faulkner won the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature and wrote The Sound and the Fury.

Faulkner was an American novelist and short-story writer closely associated with the fictional Yoknapatawpha County in Mississippi. His fiction often examines memory, family, social change, race, and the decline of old Southern institutions.

The Sound and the Fury was published in 1929. Its four sections use shifting viewpoints and nonlinear chronology, especially in the opening section narrated through the perceptions of Benjy Compson. This experimental structure is a frequent reason the novel is discussed alongside modernist literature.

Faulkner received the Nobel citation for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel. He is sometimes confused with John Steinbeck, another American Nobel laureate, but Steinbeck won in 1962.