Critique of William Faulkner’s Nobel Prize Speech In 1949, William Faulkner, the writer from Oxford, Mississippi, was awarded the Nobel Prize. He was the first American author to receive this prestigious award since the start of World War II. The context of his acceptance speech is important. W...

A Poet to Remember T.S. Eliot, one of the greatest poets known to man, was a poet to remember. His life resembles the model American life; he was brought up in a religious, conservative family, he enjoyed sports of all kinds, and got a college degree. T.S. Eliot, a winner of the Nobel Prize, live...