Beginning with a picture of Faulkner and quotations by J. B. Priestly and Richard Ellman, this famous speech will give you an interesting perspective on the author and on his thoughts on humanity.

William Faulkner's Novels
http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~egjbp/faulkner/novels.html

A bit confusing but packed with fascinating information (be sure to click on the topics across the top of the page), this site gives links to biographical information on Faulkner, historical contexts of the novels, text synopses, and e-texts of his essays, speeches, and letters. An essential resource for any student researching Faulkner.

William Faulkner on the Web
http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~egjbp/faulkner/faulkner.html

Housed at the University of Mississippi in Faulkner's hometown of Oxford, this site is an absolute must for anyone researching Faulkner. It begins with links to pages describing the author's fictional Yoknapatawpha County in great detail. There are also links to scholarly articles, fun links (like the Faux-Faulkner page), biographies, information about Faulkner’s Oxford, and information about all Faulkner’s titles.

BIOGRAPHY
William Faulkner (1897–1962). Born into an old Mississippi family that had lost its influence and wealth during the Civil War, William Faulkner lived nearly all his life in the South writing about Yoknapatawpha County, an imagined Mississippi county similar to his home in Oxford. Among his novels based on this fictional location are The Sound and the Fury (1929), As I Lay Dying (1930), Light in August (1932), and Absalom, Absalom! (1936). Faulkner also described the decline of pre-Civil War aristocratic families and the rise of mean-spirited money grubbers in his trilogy: The Hamlet (1940), The Town (1957), and The Mansion (1959).

Although his writings are regional in their emphasis on local social history, his concerns are broader. In his 1950 acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize for literature, he insisted that the "problems of the human heart in conflict with itself...alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat." This commitment is evident in his novels and in The Collected Stories of William Faulkner (1950). His short story "A Rose for Emily" concerns the mysterious life of Emily Grierson and presents a personal conflict rooted in her southern identity. It also contains a grim surprise.