1897 - 1962
William Cuthbert Faulkner (; September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where Faulkner spent most of his life. A Nobel laureate, Faulkner is one of the most celebrated writers of American literature and is considered the greatest writer of Southern literature. After he was born in New Albany, Mississippi, Faulkner's family moved to Oxford, Mississippi when he was a young child. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of William Faulkner has received more than 5,683,483 page views. His biography is available in 102 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 100 in 2019). William Faulkner is the 155th most popular writer (up from 156th in 2019), the 131st most popular biography from United States (down from 128th in 2019) and the 12th most popular American Writer.
William Faulkner is most famous for his novel "The Sound and the Fury."
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Among writers, William Faulkner ranks 155 out of 5,755. Before him are Ivo Andrić, Eugène Ionesco, Heinrich Böll, Joseph Conrad, André Breton, and Dr. Seuss. After him are Pliny the Younger, Jean Racine, Hafez, Fernando Pessoa, Menander, and Novalis.
1892 - 1975
HPI: 74.03
Rank: 149
1909 - 1994
HPI: 73.96
Rank: 150
1917 - 1985
HPI: 73.92
Rank: 151
1857 - 1924
HPI: 73.91
Rank: 152
1896 - 1966
HPI: 73.89
Rank: 153
1904 - 1991
HPI: 73.86
Rank: 154
1897 - 1962
HPI: 73.85
Rank: 155
61 - 113
HPI: 73.79
Rank: 156
1639 - 1699
HPI: 73.77
Rank: 157
1325 - 1389
HPI: 73.73
Rank: 158
1888 - 1935
HPI: 73.69
Rank: 159
342 BC - 291 BC
HPI: 73.68
Rank: 160
1772 - 1801
HPI: 73.65
Rank: 161
Among people born in 1897, William Faulkner ranks 4. Before him are Joseph Goebbels, Irène Joliot-Curie, and Pope Paul VI. After him are Amelia Earhart, Anthony Eden, Subhas Chandra Bose, Ivan Konev, Lucky Luciano, Ludwig Erhard, Wilhelm Reich, and Paavo Nurmi. Among people deceased in 1962, William Faulkner ranks 6. Before him are Marilyn Monroe, Hermann Hesse, Niels Bohr, Adolf Eichmann, and Eleanor Roosevelt. After him are Karen Blixen, Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, Lucky Luciano, Georges Bataille, Yves Klein, and Arthur Compton.
1897 - 1945
HPI: 78.93
Rank: 1
1897 - 1956
HPI: 78.05
Rank: 2
1897 - 1978
HPI: 77.90
Rank: 3
1897 - 1962
HPI: 73.85
Rank: 4
1897 - 1937
HPI: 73.67
Rank: 5
1897 - 1977
HPI: 72.93
Rank: 6
1897 - 1945
HPI: 71.66
Rank: 7
1897 - 1973
HPI: 71.18
Rank: 8
1897 - 1962
HPI: 70.89
Rank: 9
1897 - 1977
HPI: 70.45
Rank: 10
1897 - 1957
HPI: 70.37
Rank: 11
1897 - 1973
HPI: 69.81
Rank: 12
1926 - 1962
HPI: 85.04
Rank: 1
1877 - 1962
HPI: 81.43
Rank: 2
1885 - 1962
HPI: 80.71
Rank: 3
1906 - 1962
HPI: 79.90
Rank: 4
1884 - 1962
HPI: 79.77
Rank: 5
1897 - 1962
HPI: 73.85
Rank: 6
1885 - 1962
HPI: 72.64
Rank: 7
1880 - 1962
HPI: 72.28
Rank: 8
1897 - 1962
HPI: 70.89
Rank: 9
1897 - 1962
HPI: 69.26
Rank: 10
1928 - 1962
HPI: 68.63
Rank: 11
1892 - 1962
HPI: 68.51
Rank: 12
Among people born in United States, William Faulkner ranks 131 out of 18,182. Before him are Isadora Duncan (1877), Grace Hopper (1906), Linus Pauling (1901), Clark Gable (1901), Dr. Seuss (1904), and Sharon Tate (1943). After him are Kirk Douglas (1916), Bobby Fischer (1943), Barbra Streisand (1942), John Adams (1735), Francis Ford Coppola (1939), and Billy the Kid (1859).
1877 - 1927
HPI: 74.00
Rank: 125
1906 - 1992
HPI: 73.92
Rank: 126
1901 - 1994
HPI: 73.87
Rank: 127
1901 - 1960
HPI: 73.86
Rank: 128
1904 - 1991
HPI: 73.86
Rank: 129
1943 - 1969
HPI: 73.86
Rank: 130
1897 - 1962
HPI: 73.85
Rank: 131
1916 - 2020
HPI: 73.78
Rank: 132
1943 - 2008
HPI: 73.76
Rank: 133
1942 - Present
HPI: 73.74
Rank: 134
1735 - 1826
HPI: 73.70
Rank: 135
1939 - Present
HPI: 73.70
Rank: 136
1859 - 1881
HPI: 73.69
Rank: 137
Among writers born in United States, William Faulkner ranks 12. Before him are Robert Frost (1874), Toni Morrison (1931), Stephen King (1947), Henry David Thoreau (1817), H. P. Lovecraft (1890), and Dr. Seuss (1904). After him are Frank Herbert (1920), J. D. Salinger (1919), Dale Carnegie (1888), John Steinbeck (1902), Emily Dickinson (1830), and Herman Melville (1819).
1874 - 1963
HPI: 78.15
Rank: 6
1931 - 2019
HPI: 78.04
Rank: 7
1947 - Present
HPI: 77.76
Rank: 8
1817 - 1862
HPI: 75.77
Rank: 9
1890 - 1937
HPI: 75.57
Rank: 10
1904 - 1991
HPI: 73.86
Rank: 11
1897 - 1962
HPI: 73.85
Rank: 12
1920 - 1986
HPI: 73.46
Rank: 13
1919 - 2010
HPI: 73.35
Rank: 14
1888 - 1955
HPI: 73.13
Rank: 15
1902 - 1968
HPI: 72.88
Rank: 16
1830 - 1886
HPI: 72.45
Rank: 17
1819 - 1891
HPI: 72.37
Rank: 18