• The Hamlet, novel by William Faulkner, published in 1940, the first volume of a trilogy including The Town (1957) and The Mansion (1959). - The narrative is set in the late 19th century and depicts the early years of the crude and contemptible Flem Snopes and his clan, who by the trilogy’s end supplant the dispirited gentry class (represented by the Sartoris family) of Frenchman’s Bend, Miss.
• William Faulkner, in full William Cuthbert Faulkner, original surname Falkner, (born September 25, 1897, New Albany, Mississippi, U.S.—died July 6, 1962, Byhalia, Mississippi), American novelist and short-story writer who was awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature. His famous literary works: - The Hamlet (Novel), - The Sound and the Fury, - As I Lay Dying, - Light in August, - Absalom, Absalom!, - Go Down Moses etc.