Works by William Faulkner
Novels
- Soldiers' Play (1926)
- Mosquitoes (1927)
- Sartoris (1929)
- The Sound of the Fury (1929)
- As I Lay Dying (1930)
- Light in August (1932)
- Absalom, Absalom! (1936)
- The Unvanquished (1938)
- If I Forget Thee, Jerusalem/Wild Palms (1939)
- Go Down, Moses (1942)
- A Fable (1954)
- The Town (1957)
- The Mansion (1959)
Screenplays
Includes full screenplays, dialogue & story contributions, revisions, and treatments.
- Today We Live (1933)
- Banjo On My Knee (1935), uncredited
- Road to Glory (1936)
- The Petrified Forest (1936), uncredited
- Slave Ship (1937)
- Submarine Patrol (1938), uncredited
- Gunga Din (1939), uncredited
- Drums Along the Mohawk (1939), uncredited
- Northern Pursuit (1943)
- To Have and Have Not (1944)
- The Southerner (1945), uncredited
- Mildred Pierce (1945), uncredited
- The Big Sleep (1946)
- Stallion Road (1947), uncredited
- Intruder in the Dust (1949), uncredited
- Shall Not Perish (1953)
- Land of the Pharaohs (1955)
- The Left Hand of God (1955)
Short Stories with Film Adaptations
- "Lizards in Jamshyd's Courtyard"
- "Fool About a Horse"
- "Afternoon of a Cow"
"Spotted Horses" and "The Hound" (both published 1941), along with "Lizards in Jamshyd's Courtyard" (1932), "Fool About a Horse" (1936), "Barn Burning" (1939), and "Afternoon of a Cow" (1943) were revised to compile into the novel The Hamlet (1940), which was adapted into The Long, Hot Summer (1958).
- "A Rose for Emily"
"A Rose for Emily" (published 1930) was adapted into a PBS made-for-TV film starring Anjelica Huston.
- "Tomorrow"
"Tomorrow" (originally published 1940 and compiled into the 1949 collection Knight's Gambit) was adapted into Tomorrow (1972) starring Robert Duvall.
Mentions in Gene's Correspondence
Though Gene didn't write Faulkner directly, works to which Faulkner contributed are featured in Gene's letters.
Rev. Gene Phillips Letters, 1970-2004
PAGE 29: Letter from Mary Welsh Hemingway to Rev. Gene Phillips, Aug. 20, 1978.
M. Hemingway describes her late husband Ernest’s thoughts on various adaptations of his work. According to Mary, Ernest only liked The Killers (1946), “made by a man, long dead, whose name [she] tried and tried to remember and cannot” (possibly Mark Hellinger, d. 1947, if not Robert Siodmak, d. 1973, as she says the name was Irish, but Edmond O’Brien was still alive at the time.) She recalls Ernest’s complaint about Gary Cooper’s “brand-new shirt from Abercrombie and Fitch” in a rugged scene in For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943). She speaks kindly of Fred Zinnemann, of whom Ernest was fond, and who was originally set to direct The Old Man and the Sea (1958), though she believed Zinnemann (misspelt “Zimmerman”) would not approve of the casting of his friend Spencer Tracey in the lead. M. Hemingway continues, stating that she had no clear memory of Ernest’s specific comments on other films, including the three versions of To Have and Have Not (1944, 1950,1958) and two versions of A Farewell to Arms (1932, 1957). She concludes with a memory of fishing for marlin during filming. Typed on stationery addressed P.O. Box 555, Ketchum, Idaho 83340, signature handwritten with blue ink.
