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William Faulkner: Cobalt Character

William Faulkner (1897 to 1962) was an American novelist from Mississippi who wrote The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying and Absalom, Absalom! He won the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature and later received Pulitzer Prizes for A Fable and The Reivers.

Cost
2 crystals
Type
Character · Thinker
Power / Health
2 / 2
Color
Cobalt (Thinkers & Dreamers)
Rarity
Common
Set
Liberty & Lightning (Set 1)

When destroyed: draw a card.

Southern storyteller whose stream-of-consciousness narratives and tangled family sagas redefined American literature.

Real history

The real history

William Faulkner was born in 1897 and spent much of his life in Oxford, Mississippi. He was born William Falkner and began spelling his surname Faulkner early in his writing career. During World War I he received training with the Royal Air Force.

His first novel, Soldiers' Pay, appeared in 1926. In 1929 he published The Sound and the Fury, followed by As I Lay Dying in 1930, Light in August in 1932 and Absalom, Absalom! in 1936. He created a fictional Mississippi setting called Jefferson for his stories. His home in Oxford, Rowan Oak, is now an important literary landmark and is operated by the University of Mississippi.

Fame came slowly. By 1945 Faulkner had published thirteen novels, but none of them was in print in the United States. The Portable Faulkner in 1946 and the novel Intruder in the Dust in 1948 helped revive his reputation.

The Nobel Prize in Literature for 1949 went to Faulkner. He also won Pulitzer Prizes, including one for A Fable in 1955 and one for The Reivers in 1963, after his death. William Faulkner died on July 6, 1962, and by then he was widely considered the most important American novelist of his generation.

Sources

  1. Faulkner, William, Mississippi Encyclopedia, Center for Study of Southern Culture, University of Mississippi
  2. A Vast and Enduring Monument: William Faulkner's Literary Reputation, Mississippi History Now, Mississippi Department of Archives and History
  3. Rowan Oak, University of Mississippi

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How the card plays

William Faulkner costs 2 crystals and is a 2/2 Common Cobalt Thinker. When he is destroyed, draw a card. He is a cheap, even trade: if the opponent spends removal or a good attack to kill him, you get a card back.

That makes him a good early attacker or blocker, since the opponent has no clean way to remove him without giving you a card. Lead with him on turn two and send him into combat willingly. Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass gives your Thinkers +1/+1 when he enters play, and Faulkner becomes a 3/3. Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe also draws a card when destroyed, so two writers can trade for cards. Writers Convention Writers Convention gives your Thinkers +2/+2, turning Faulkner into a 4/4.

  • Playable in decks led by Martin Luther King Jr., Neil Armstrong, and by any Traveler Leader whose colors include Cobalt.
  • In the Dr. King starter deck (2 copies). Deck code: LC2-BAABAQICAQMBBAEFAQYBBwEIAQkCCgILAQwBDQIOAg8BEAIRARICEwIUAhUBFgEXARgBGQEaARsBHAEdAR4B3v4
  • In the Armstrong starter deck (2 copies). Deck code: LC2-AQABAQECAQMBBAEFAQYBBwEIAgkCCgILAQwBDQIOAQ8BEAERARICEwIUARUBFgEXARgBGQEaARsBHAIdAR4BfQK1eQ
  • A deck holds up to 3 copies of this card.

Questions about William Faulkner

When did William Faulkner win the Nobel Prize?

He won the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1949. His books were largely out of print in the United States in the mid-1940s, and The Portable Faulkner in 1946 helped bring him back to readers.

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