Falcon Rest, an 1896 Victorian mansion in McMinnville, built by local manufacturer Clay Faulkner, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

* National Register of Historic Places listings in Faulkner County, Arkansas

He has won the National Book Award for Fiction and the PEN / Faulkner Award for his novel, Waiting ( 1999 ).

He writes in the Southern Gothic aesthetic in his distinctly Faulknerian 1965 debut, The Orchard Keeper, and Suttree ( 1979 ); in the Epic Western tradition, with grotesquely drawn characters and symbolic narrative turns reminiscent of Melville, in Blood Meridian ( 1985 ), which Harold Bloom styled " the greatest single book since Faulkner ’ s As I Lay Dying ," calling the character of Judge Holden " short of Moby Dick, the most monstrous apparition in all of American literature "; in a much more pastoral tone in his celebrated Border Trilogy ( 1992 – 98 ) of bildungsromans, including All the Pretty Horses ( 1992 ), winner of the National Book Award ; and in the post-apocalyptic genre in the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Road ( 2007 ).

Chinese-American author Ha Jin in 1999 won the National Book Award for his second novel, Waiting, about a Chinese soldier in the Revolutionary Army who has to wait 18 years to divorce his wife for another woman, all the while having to worry about persecution for his protracted affair, and twice won the PEN / Faulkner Award, in 2000 for Waiting and in 2005 for War Trash.

* All Souls ' Rising, a novel about Toussaint Louverture and the Haitian Revolution, was a finalist for the 1995 National Book Award and the 1996 PEN / Faulkner Award.

* Mary McGarry Morris, author, National Book Award and PEN / Faulkner finalist, Time Magazine and ALA Library Journal " Book of the Year " finalist, New York Times best-selling author of Songs in Ordinary Time, winner of " Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers Award ," and author of eight ( 8 ) novels

He was the winner of the William Faulkner Award and the Rosenthal Award shinguard of the National Institute of Arts and Letters.

Billy Bathgate is a 1989 novel by author E. L. Doctorow that won the 1989 National Book Critics Circle award for fiction for 1990 and the PEN / Faulkner Award for Fiction, and was the runner up for the 1990 Pulitzer Prize.

" Kavalier & Clay was published to " nearly unanimous praise " and became a New York Times Best Seller, receiving nominations for the 2000 National Book Critics Circle Award and PEN / Faulkner Award for Fiction.

Price received numerous literary honors, including the National Book Critics Circle Award, the William Faulkner Foundation Award, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his memoir Clear Pictures ( 1989 ).

Faulkner competed mainly in the National Championship and in stock car races.

In October 2006 John Faulkner was elected as the National President of the Australian Labor Party until February 2008.

* John Faulkner ( ALP Senator and National President )

Former Presidents of AYL have included former NSW Premier Bob Carr, Federal Minister for Agriculture Tony Burke, Special Minister of State Senator John Faulkner, former Australian Workers Union National Secretary and current Member for Maribyrnong and Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation ; Assistant Treasurer Bill Shorten as well as dozens of State Ministers and MPs.

It won the PEN / Faulkner Award for Fiction ( 2006 ) and the National Book Critics Circle Award / Fiction ( 2005 ).

The March won the 2006 PEN / Faulkner fiction award, which Doctorow had previously won in 1990 for his novel Billy Bathgate ; it also won the 2005 National Book Critics Award and was a finalist for the 2005 National Book Award and the 2006 Pulitzer Prize.

Faulkner became Chief Executive in a power-sharing executive with the SDLP and the middle-of-the-road Alliance Party, a political alliance cemented at the Sunningdale Conference that year.

These include The Reivers by William Faulkner ( 1962 ), September, September by Shelby Foote ( 1977 ), The Old Forest and Other Stories by Peter Taylor ( 1985 ), the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Summons to Memphis by Peter Taylor ( 1986 ), The Firm ( 1991 ) and The Client ( 1993 ), both by John Grisham, Memphis Afternoons: a Memoir by James Conaway ( 1993 ), " Plague of Dreamers " by Steve Stern ( 1997 ) Cassina Gambrel Was Missing by William Watkins ( 1999 ), The Guardian by Beecher Smith ( 1999 ), " We are Billion-Year-Old Carbon " by Corey Mesler ( 2005 ), The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris, and The Architect by James Williamson ( 2007 ).

As of July 1, 2007, Sea Isle City is governed under a Faulkner Act ( Mayor-Council ) form of government by a mayor and a five-member city council.

Based on the results of a Charter Study Commission, a recommendation was listed on the November 2007 general election ballot proposing that the township adopt a Faulkner Act ( Mayor-Council ) form of government.

From 1900 to 1950, Sinclair Lewis ( 1885 – 1951 ), William Faulkner ( 1897 – 1962 ), Henry Miller ( 1891 – 1980 ), Ernest Hemingway ( 1899 – 1961 ), John Steinbeck ( 1902 – 1968 ), Richard Wright ( 1908 – 1960 ), William Saroyan ( 1908 – 1981 ), Nelson Algren ( 1909 – 1981 ), Paul Bowles ( 1910 – 1999 ), Jerome Salinger ( 1919 – 2009 ), Norman Mailer ( 1923 – 2007 ), and Gore Vidal ( 1925 – 2012 ).

In 2007, it was a finalist for the PEN / Faulkner Award, which was won by Philip Roth's Everyman.

* 2007: Nominated PEN / Faulkner Award, All Aunt Hagar's Children

In 1958, Chester Township changed its form of government from the Township form to a Faulkner Act form, Small Municipality, Plan C. Its structure includes four Councilmembers and a Mayor, all elected at large for three-year terms on a staggered basis, with one or two seats coming up for election each year.

Also in this novel, Faulkner uses italics to indicate points in each section where the narrative is moving into a significant moment in the past.

Throughout the novel, Faulkner presents fifteen different points of view, each chapter narrated by one character, including Addie, who, after dying, expresses her thoughts from the coffin.

Salinger, William Faulkner, Margaret Laurence, Kurt Vonnegut, Mordecai Richler, Edgar Rice Burroughs and Isaac Asimov also ' crossover ' with each other, linking different characters and settings together over a number of different works.

Senators John Faulkner and Robert Ray ( Labor ) and Aden Ridgeway ( Australian Democrats ) each alleged that Heffernan had deliberately structured his speech this way in order to conceal the fact that he was violating parliamentary standing orders.

In his final speech in the Executive meeting room Faulkner said " after five months of being able to work together, Catholic and Protestant, I hope that one thing can remain-that we do not attack each other on a sectarian basis ever again ".

It will be seen that virtually all of Hutchins's surplus votes went to Faulkner, the second candidate on the Labor ticket, who was then elected.

Grant Faulkner will be taking his position as Executive Director.

[...] When you have read the book you will see what Author Faulkner thinks of the inviolability of sanctuary.

It is uncertain if Swift allowed Faulkner to publish the works in order to allow an Irish publisher to compete against a British publisher or if Swift had no say in the matter and Faulkner published the works against Swift's will.

Prominent members of the Executive included former Unionist Prime Minister Brian Faulkner as Chief Executive, SDLP leader Gerry Fitt as Deputy Chief Executive, future Nobel Laureate and SDLP leader John Hume as Minister for Commerce and leader of the Alliance Party Oliver Napier as Legal Minister and head of the Office of Law Reform.

After two weeks of barricades, shortages, rioting and intimidation, Brian Faulkner resigned as Chief Executive and the Sunningdale Agreement collapsed on 28 May 1974.

John Faulkner was the Vice-President of the Executive Council, Special Minister of State and Cabinet Secretary in the Rudd Ministry.

Rees ' continuing refusal to meet with the UWC representatives saw Brian Faulkner tender his resignation as Chief Executive.

Even the great god Faulkner, the South's one probable contender for literary immortality, has little concerned himself with these matters ; ;

Faulkner, for one, appears to be safe from the accusing fingers of all assailants in this regard.

* 1981 – Philadelphia Police Department officer Daniel Faulkner is killed during a routine traffic stop ; Mumia Abu-Jamal is later convicted for it and he goes on to become " perhaps the world's best known death-row inmate " before his sentence is commuted to life without parole in December 2011.

During the golden age of bohemianism, Greenwich Village became famous for such eccentrics as Joe Gould ( profiled at length by Joseph Mitchell ) and Maxwell Bodenheim, dancer Isadora Duncan, writer William Faulkner, and playwright Eugene O ' Neill.

The World War I film was based on a short story by author William Faulkner, who Hawks got to know personally during the shooting of the film and remained friends with for over twenty years.

Just months after wrapping the film, Bogart and Bacall were reunited for their second movie together, the film noir The Big Sleep, based on the novel by Raymond Chandler, again with script help from William Faulkner.

Mumia Abu-Jamal ( born Wesley Cook on April 24, 1954 ) is an American convict, serving a life sentence for the 1981 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner.

" Embroideries of all kinds " were offered through Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. catalogues, and church embroidery became and remained an important line of business for its successor companies into the twentieth century.

In 1861 Morris and some friends founded a company, Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co., which, as supervised by the partners, designed and made decorative objects for homes, including wallpaper, textiles, furniture and stained glass.

Examples: William Faulkner in A Rose for Emily ( Faulkner was an avid experimenter in using unusual points of view-see his Spotted Horses, told in third person plural ); Frank B. Gilbreth and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey in Cheaper By the Dozen ; Frederik Pohl in Man Plus ; and more recently, Jeffrey Eugenides in his novel The Virgin Suicides and Joshua Ferris in Then We Came to the End.

MOVE continues to advocate for the release of jailed MOVE sympathizer and former resident of Philadelphia, Mumia Abu-Jamal, convicted of the 1981 murder of police officer Daniel Faulkner.

Faulkner theorised that without contact with members of the New Left or the Trotskyists, the two main Marxist currents in Britain that were critical of the Soviet Union at the time, Childe felt alone in his conflicting feelings about the country, and despaired for the future of humanity.

The post office for the neighborhood had previously been at Cofachique, and Aaron Case was Postmaster, but in October 1859, the office was removed to Iola, Case still being Postmaster, though James Faulkner attended to it, as his deputy, until he was appointed to the office a short time after.

The Faulkner homestead served as a garrison for South Acton Militia during the Revolutionary War.

The town was named for William Clark Falkner, the great-grandfather of author William Faulkner.

The Faulkner Act allows municipalities to adopt a Small Municipality form of government only for municipalities with a population of under 12, 000.

The Faulkner Act allows municipalities to adopt a Small Municipality form of government only for municipalities with a population of under 12, 000.

Mount Olive Township is governed under the Optional Municipal Charter Law's ( Faulkner Act ) Mayor-Council Form of government, a " Strong Mayor " Form of government, providing for a separately elected mayor and council, who serve for four-year terms of office.

The Borough of North Plainfield is governed under the Faulkner Act ( Mayor-Council ) system of municipal government, which provides for a strong-mayor type of government.

Newton operates under the Faulkner Act ( Council-Manager ) form of municipal government with a five-member Town Council, whose members are chosen in nonpartisan elections to four-year terms of office on a staggered basis, with two or three seats coming up for election in even years.

The Faulkner Act allows municipalities to adopt a Small Municipality form of government only for municipalities with a population of under 12, 000.