William Faulkner Books Made Into Movies. William faulkner, one of the 20th century's most gifted novelists, wrote for the movies in part because he could not make enough money from his novels and short stories to support his growing number of dependants. By charles mcnair | august 5, 2010 | 3:34pm.
Edited, with an afterword and notes, by noel polk. No, he replied, faulkner doesn’t sell well, and most of his stuff is out of print anyway. When asked to name the greatest writers of the time, faulkner listed ernest hemingway, willa cather, thomas mann, john dos passos, and himself.
The original text by william faulkner.
Faulkner worked on movies or had his own work adapted into hollywood projects on and off for about 40 years, but he was most active as a scriptwriter from the 1930s through the 1940s. Tony richardson's sanctuary(1961) www.youtube.com/watch?v=imnzfm_sq8s, based on faulkner's novels, sanctuary, and requiem for a nunlike stephen roberts' the. She is known for her vampire and gothic novels based mainly in new orleans. His publisher, cape & smith, had gone bankrupt, and the money he’d been expecting for his novel sanctuary was nowhere to be found.