Faulkner

William Faulkner was a novelist born in 1897 in northern Mississippi. Many of his novels are based in a fictitious, rural county in where he grew up, sometimes set during the time of slavery – writing therefore about slaves, former slaves, slaveholders, uneducated rural working class people and those who passed for aristocrats in that region and time. He also wrote, in conjunction with others, screenplays for movies based on other writers’ novels: The Big Sleep, based on Raymond Chandler’s novel, starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall; and To Have and Have Not, based on Ernest Hemingway’s novel, with the same movie stars.

In my opinion, Faulkner’s novel writing style was heavy and complex. But I read only Absalom, Absalom, which told the story like a great legend. He is known for writing streams of conciousness when relaying the thoughts of characters. Many of his books, like Absalom, retell a story from the point of view of several characters – thus giving it a more legendary quality. He wasn’t liked by many readers and critics at the time because of his style of writing, but his popularity grew. In 1949, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. He also won two Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction, in 1955 and 1963 – the last was awarded posthumously.

Note

I’ve said this elsewhere, but I like the style of the Faulkner stamp on this album page. Although it’s monotone, it has a classic look – which is very befitting of Faulkner and his writings. Since I collect Italian stamps and I’m an Italian citizen, I probably should have written about Enrico Caruso – the middle stamp on the third row – but I can write about him in my Italian collection. Besides, I don’t like the style of this stamp, but do like the style of the Italian one, which is like the Faulker: Fountains.

Contains 9 spots: own 9 – 9 unused, 0 used.
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Stamp Details

The table below lists information about the stamps shown on this page of Lighthouse’s stamp album. For more details about a particular stamp, click on its description. That will take you to the related web page of Colnect.

spot	own	catalog	subject	description
1.1	✓	2247	Pan American Games Indianapolis	22c (jan 1987) comm., multicolor
2.1	✓	2251	Girl Scouts	22c (mar 1987) comm., multicolor
2.2	✓	2246	Michigan Statehood	22c (jan 1987) comm., multicolor
2.3	✓	2349	Morocco Centennial	22c (jul 1987) comm., black & scarlet
2.4	✓	2361	Certified Public Accountants	22c (sep 1987) comm., multicolor

Famous Americans

3.1	✓	2249	Point du Sable	22c (feb 1987) comm., multicolor
3.2	✓	2250	Enrico Caruso	22c (feb 1987) comm., multicolor
3.3	✓	2350	William Faulkner	22c (aug 1987) comm., bright green

Other

4.1

✓

2275

United Way

22c (apr 1987)
definitive, multicolor

Footnotes

Spot refers to the postion of the stamp on the album page (e.g., 3.2 indicates row 3, position 2).
Amt. is an abbreviation for the face amount of the stamp.
Own indicates the stamp status: ✓ for unused; ✗ for used or canceled; ⭑ signifies I ordered one; ; ✨ indicates it was bought recently; ✠ means an auction bid is pending; and ◎ is used, and it costs too much for unused.
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