A Rose for Emily Literature Guide

1. A Rose for Emily Literature Guide Keena P. Day, M.A.

2. William Faulkner • William Cuthbert Faulkner (born Falkner, September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer from Oxford, Mississippi. • Faulkner worked in a variety of media; he wrote novels, short stories, a play, poetry, essays and screenplays during his career. • He is primarily known and acclaimed for his novels and short stories, many of which are set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, a setting Faulkner created based on Lafayette County, where he spent most of his childhood.[1] Source: Wikipedia

3. William Faulkner • Faulkner is considered one of the most important writers of the Southern literature of the United States • Though his work was published as early as 1919, and largely during the 1920s and 1930s, Faulkner was relatively unknown until receiving the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature.[2] • Two of his works, A Fable (1954) and his last novel The Reivers (1962), both won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. • In 1998, the Modern Library ranked his 1929 novel The Sound and the Fury sixth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century; also on the list were 1930's As I Lay Dying and Light in August (1932).

5. “A Rose for Emily” • To discuss: • vocabulary terms • Story map • Literary Elements • Characterization of Homer, Emily • Quiz