William Faulkner bibliography

William Faulkner bibliography

Faulkner photographed in December 1954 by Carl Van Vechten. Faulkner photographed in December 1954 by Carl Van Vechten.
Releases
↙Novels	19
↙Stories	125
↙Plays	1
↙Screenplays	20

The bibliography of William Faulkner, an American writer, includes 19 novels, 125 short stories (not including stories that appear exclusively in composite novels), 20 screenplays (including uncredited rewrites), one play, six collections of poetry as well as assorted letters and essays.

Faulkner made his debut as a published writer at the age of 21 with the poem "L'Après-midi d'un Faune", which appeared in The New Republic on August 6, 1919. Two more poems, "Cathay" and "Sapphics" and a short story, "Landing in Luck", were published in Mississippian in November 1919.

Faulkner's first novel, Soldiers' Pay, was published in 1926 and his 19th and final, The Reivers, in 1962, the year he died. Numerous works have been published posthumously.

Fiction

Novels

Title	Publication date	Publisher	Notes
Soldiers' Pay	February 25, 1926	Boni & Liveright	Faulkner's debut novel.
Mosquitoes	April 30, 1927	Boni & Liveright
Sartoris	January 31, 1929	Harcourt, Brace	First novel set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County; an abridged version of Flags in the Dust. The original manuscript was published posthumously by Random House on August 22, 1973.
The Sound and the Fury	October 7, 1929	Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith	An appendix to the novel, "Compson 1699–1945", was included in The Portable Faulkner, edited by Malcolm Cowley and published by Viking Press in 1946. First appearance of the Compson family.
As I Lay Dying	October 6, 1930	Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith
Sanctuary	February 9, 1931	Jonathan Cape & Harrison Smith	An introduction to the novel by Faulkner was first included in the Modern Library edition of the novel published on March 25, 1932.
Light in August	October 6, 1932	Harrison Smith & Robert Haas	A foreword to the novel by novelist C.E. Morgan has been included in the Modern Library edition of the novel published in April 2012
Pylon	March 25, 1935	Harrison Smith & Robert Haas	First novel since Mosquitoes not to be set in Yoknapatawpha County.
Absalom, Absalom!	October 26, 1936	Random House	A foreword to the novel by author John Jeremiah Sullivan has been included in the Modern Library edition of the novel published in April 2012. Second novel featuring Quentin Compson, after The Sound and the Fury.
The Unvanquished	February 15, 1938	Random House	A collection of seven interrelated short stories, six of which are revisions of stories previously published in The Saturday Evening Post. "An Odor of Verbena" is new to The Unvanquished.
The Wild Palms	January 19, 1939	Random House	Not set in Yoknapatawpha County. Consists of two interwoven stories: "The Wild Palms" and "Old Man". Included as If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem, Faulkner's original title, in the Library of America collection Novels 1936-1940, published in 1990. Sometimes published as The Wild Palms [If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem].
The Hamlet	April 1, 1940	Random House	The first book in Faulkner's Snopes trilogy.
Go Down, Moses	May 11, 1942	Random House	Contains seven interrelated short stories, five of which had been published previously. "Was" and "The Fire and the Hearth" are exclusive to the novel. First published as Go Down, Moses and Other Stories; the title was altered for subsequent editions at Faulkner's insistence.
Intruder in the Dust	September 27, 1948	Random House
Requiem for a Nun	September 27, 1951	Random House	Sequel to Sanctuary. Written as a play with prose parts preceding each act.
A Fable	August 2, 1954	Random House	Not set in Yoknapatawpha County. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Award in 1955.
The Town	May 1, 1957	Random House	The second book in Faulkner's Snopes trilogy.
The Mansion	November 13, 1959	Random House	The third book in Faulkner's Snopes trilogy.
The Reivers	June 4, 1962	Random House	Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1963.

Library of America editions

To date, Library of America has published all of Faulkner's novels in five volumes, containing restored authoritative texts.

• Novels 1926–1929, containing Soldiers' Pay, Mosquitoes, Flags in the Dust, The Sound and the Fury (ISBN 978-1-93108289-1, 1170 pp, April 6, 2006)
• Novels 1930–1935, containing As I Lay Dying, Sanctuary, Light in August, Pylon (ISBN 978-0-94045026-4, 1056 pp, December 1, 1985)
• Novels 1936–1940, containing Absalom, Absalom!, The Unvanquished, If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem, The Hamlet (ISBN 978-0-94045055-4, 1148 pp, June 1, 1990)
• Novels 1942–1954, containing Go Down, Moses, Intruder in the Dust, Requiem for a Nun, A Fable (ISBN 978-0-94045085-1, 1110 pp, October 1, 1994)
• Novels 1957–1962, containing The Town, The Mansion, The Reivers (ISBN 978-1-88301169-7, 1020 pp, October 1, 1999)

Short stories

See also: Collected Stories of William Faulkner and Knight's Gambit

• "Landing in Luck" (1919)
• "The Hill" (1922)
• "New Orleans" (1925)
• "Mirrors of Chartres Street" (1925)
• "Damon and Pythias Unlimited" (1925)
• "Jealousy" (1925)
• "Cheest" (1925)
• "Out of Nazareth" (1925)
• "The Kingdom of God" (1925)
• "The Rosary" (1925)
• "The Cobbler" (1925)
• "Chance" (1925)
• "Sunset" (1925)
• "The Kid Learns" (1925)
• "The Liar" (1925)
• "Home" (1925)
• "Episode" (1925)
• "Country Mice" (1925)
• "Yo Ho and Two Bottles of Rum" (1925)
• "Music – Sweeter than the Angels Sing" (1928)
• "A Rose for Emily" (1930)
• "Honor" (1930)
• "Thrift" (1930)
• "Red Leaves" (1930)
• "Ad Astra" (1931)
• "Dry September" (1931)
• "That Evening Sun" (1931)
• "Hair" (1931)
• "Spotted Horses" (1931)
• "The Hound" (1931)
• "Fox Hunt" (1931)
• "Carcassonne" (1931)
• "Divorce in Naples" (1931)
• "Victory" (1931)
• "All the Dead Pilots" (1931)
• "Crevasse" (1931)
• "Mistral" (1931)
• "A Justice" (1931)
• "Dr. Martino" (1931)
• "Idyll in the Desert" (1931)
• "Miss Zilphia Gant" (1932)
• "Death Drag" (1932)

• "Centaur in Brass" (1932)
• "Once Aboard the Lugger (I)" (1932)
• "Lizards in Jamshyd's Courtyard" (1932)
• "Turn About" (1932)
• "Smoke" (1932)
• "Mountain Victory" (1932)
• "There Was a Queen" (1933)
• "Artist at Home" (1933)
• "Beyond" (1933)
• "Elly" (1934)
• "Pennsylvania Station" (1934)
• "Wash" (1934)
• "A Bear Hunt" (1934)
• "The Leg" (1934)
• "Black Music" (1934)
• "Mule in the Yard" (1934)
• "Ambuscade" (1934)
• "Retreat" (1934)
• "Lo!" (1934)
• "Raid" (1934)
• "Skirmish at Sartoris" (1935)
• "Golden Land" (1935)
• "That Will Be Fine" (1935)
• "Uncle Willy" (1935)
• "Lion" (1935)
• "The Brooch" (1936)
• "Two Dollar Wife" (1936)
• "Fool About a Horse" (1936)
• "The Unvanquished" (1936)
• "Vendée" (1936)
• "Monk" (1937)
• "Barn Burning" (1939)
• "Hand Upon the Waters" (1939)
• "A Point of Law" (1940)
• "The Old People" (1940)
• "Pantaloon in Black" (1940)
• "Gold Is Not Always" (1940)
• "Tomorrow" (1940)
• "Go Down, Moses" (1941)
• "The Tall Men" (1941)
• "Two Soldiers" (1942)
• "Delta Autumn" (1942)

• "The Bear" (1942)
• "Afternoon of a Cow" (1943)
• "Shingles for the Lord" (1943)
• "My Grandmother Millard and General Bedford
  Forrest and the Battle of Harrykin Creek" (1943)
• "Shall Not Perish" (1943)
• "An Error in Chemistry" (1946)
• "A Courtship" (1948)
• "Knight's Gambit" (1949)
• "A Name for the City" (1950)
• "Notes on a Horsethief" (1951)
• "Mississippi" (1954)
• "Sepulture South: Gaslight" (1954)
• "Race at Morning" (1955)
• "By the People" (1955)
• "Hell Creek Crossing" (1962)
• "Mr. Acarius" (1965)
• "The Wishing Tree" (1967)
• "Al Jackson" (1971)
• "And Now What's To Do" (1973)
• "Nympholepsy" (1973)
• "The Priest" (1976)
• "Mayday" (1977)
• "Frankie and Johnny" (1978)
• "Don Giovanni" (1979)
• "Peter" (1979)
• "A Portrait of Elmer" (1979)
• "Adolescence" (1979)
• "Snow" (1979)
• "Moonlight" (1979)
• "With Caution and Dispatch" (1979)
• "Hog Pawn" (1979)
• "A Dangerous Man" (1979)
• "A Return" (1979)
• "The Big Shot" (1979)
• "Once Aboard the Lugger (II)" (1979)
• "Dull Tale" (1979)
• "Evangeline" (1979)
• "Love" (1988)
• "Christmas Tree" (1995)
• "Rose of Lebanon" (1995)
• "Lucas Beauchamp" (1999)

Plays

• Marionettes (one-act play, first produced at the University of Mississippi on March 4, 1921)
• Requiem for a Nun

Screenplays

Produced

Year	Film	Credit type	Collaborator(s)	Based on
1932	Flesh	Uncredited	Moss Hart (screenplay) Edmund Goulding (screenplay)	—
1933	Today We Live	Dialogue	Edith Fitzgerald (screenplay) Dwight Taylor (screenplay)	"Turn About" by William Faulkner
1936	The Road to Glory	Screenplay	Joel Sayre (screenplay) Stephen Morehouse Avery (uncredited) Walter Ferris (uncredited) Violet Kemble Cooper (uncredited)	—
	Banjo on My Knee	Uncredited	Nunnally Johnson (screenplay)	Banjo on my Knee by Harry Hamilton
1937	Slave Ship	Story	Sam Hellman (screenplay) Lamar Trotti (screenplay) Gladys Lehman (screenplay) Walter Ferris (revisions)	The Last Slaver by George S. King
1939	Gunga Din	Uncredited	Joel Sayre (screenplay) Fred Guiol (screenplay) Ben Hecht (story) Charles MacArthur (story) Lester Cohen (uncredited) John Colton (uncredited) Vincent Lawrence (uncredited) Dudley Nichols (uncredited) Anthony Veiller (uncredited)	"Gunga Din" by Rudyard Kipling
	Drums Along the Mohawk	Contributor, Uncredited	Lamar Trotti (screenplay) Sonya Levien (screenplay)	Drums Along the Mohawk by Walter D. Edmonds
1944	To Have and Have Not	Screenplay	Jules Furthman (screenplay) Cleve F. Abams (uncredited) Whitman Chambers (uncredited)	To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway
1945	The Southerner	Uncredited	Jean Renoir (screenplay) Hugo Butler (screenplay) Nunnally Johnson (uncredited)	Hold Autumn in Your Hand by George Sessions Perry
	Mildred Pierce	Contract Writer, Uncredited	Ranald MacDougall (screenplay)	Mildred Pierce by James M. Cain
1946	The Big Sleep	Screenplay	Leigh Brackett (screenplay) Jules Furthman (screenplay)	The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler
1955	Land of the Pharaohs	Written by	Harry Kurnitz (written by) Harold Jack Bloom (written by)	—

Unproduced

Year	Title	Type	Notes
1932	Night Bird	Story outline for unwritten screenplay	Included in Faulkner's MGM Screenplays, published in October 1982 by University of Tennessee Press.
1932	Manservant	Treatment for unwritten screenplay	Based on Faulkner's short story "Love". Included in Faulkner's MGM Screenplays.
1932	The College Widow	Treatment for unwritten screenplay	Based on Night Bird. Included in Faulkner's MGM Screenplays.
1932	Absolution	Treatment for unwritten screenplay	Included in Faulkner's MGM Screenplays.
1932	Flying in the Mail	Treatment for unwritten screenplay
1933	War Birds	Screenplay
1933	Louisiana Lou	Screenplay	Used for the 1934 film Lazy River without Faulkner's involvement.
1942	The De Gaulle Story	Screenplay	Appears in Faulkner: A Comprehensive Guide to the Brodsky Collection, Volume III: The De Gaulle Story, published in January 1984 by University Press of Mississippi.
1943	Country Lawyer	Story treatment	Included in Country Lawyer and Other Stories for the Screen, published in June 1987 by University Press of Mississippi.
1943	Battle Cry	Screenplay	Appears in Faulkner: A Comprehensive Guide to the Brodsky Collection, Volume IV: Battle Cry, published in December 1985 by University Press of Mississippi.
1945	Stallion Road	Screenplay	Appears in Stallion Road: A Screenplay, published in December 1989 by University Press of Mississippi.

Poetry collections

• Vision in Spring (1921)
• The Marble Faun and A Green Bough (1924)
• Helen, a Courtship and Mississippi Poems (1981)

Essays

Year	Title
1953	"A Note On Sherwood Anderson"
1954	"Mississippi"
1954	"A Guest's Impression of New England"
1955	"An Innocent at Rinkside"
1955	"Kentucky: May: Saturday"
1955	"On Privacy"
1955	"Impressions of Japan"
1955	"To the Youth of Japan"
1956	"Letter to the Northern Editor"
1956	"On Fear: Deep South in Labor: Mississippi"
1956	"A Letter to the Leaders in the Negro Race"
1961	"Albert Camus"