William Faulkner's career:
- First National Bank, Oxford, MS, clerk, 1916;
- Winchester Repeating Arms Co., New Haven, CT, ledger clerk, 1918;
- Lord & Taylor, New York, NY, bookstore clerk, 1921;
- University of Mississippi, Oxford, postmaster, 1921-24;
- worked as roof painter, carpenter, and paper hanger, New Orleans, LA, 1925;
- deckhand on Genoa-bound freighter, 1925;
- full-time writer, 1925-62;
- Coal shoveler at Oxford Power Plant, 1929;
- Screenwriter for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1932-33, and for Warner Bros., 1942-45, 1951, 1953, and 1954;
- Chairman of Writer's Group People-to-People Program, 1956-57. Writer in residence, University of Virginia, 1957-62.
Publication of Faulkner's novels:
- Soldiers' Pay, Boni & Liveright, 1926, published with author's speech of acceptance of Nobel Prize, New American Library of World Literature, 1959.
- Mosquitoes, Boni and Liveright, 1927.
- Sartoris, Harcourt, 1929.
- The Sound and the Fury, J. Cape & H. Smith, 1929, new edition published as The Sound and the Fury: An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Contexts, Criticism, Norton (New York City), 1994.
- As I Lay Dying, J. Cape & H. Smith, 1930, new and corrected edition, Random House, 1964.
- Sanctuary, J. Cape & H. Smith, 1931, published as Sanctuary: The Original Text, edited with afterword and notes by Noel Polk, Random House, 1981, published as Sanctuary: The Corrected Text, Random House, 1993.
- Light in August, H. Smith and R. Haas, 1932.
- Pylon, H. Smith and R. Haas, 1935.
- Absalom, Absalom!, Random House, 1936, casebook edition edited by Elisabeth Muhlenfeld published as William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!, Garland Publishing, 1984.
- The Unvanquished, drawings by Edward Shenton, Random House, 1938.
- The Wild Palms, Random House, 1939, published as If I Forgot Thee Jerusalem: The Wild Palms by Vintage New York City), 1995.
- The Hamlet (first book in the "Snopes Trilogy"), Random House, 1940.
- Intruder in the Dust, Random House, 1948.
- Requiem for a Nun, Random House, 1951.
- A Fable, Random House, 1954.
- The Town (second book of the "Snopes Trilogy";), Random House, 1957.
- The Long Hot Summer: A Dramatic Book from the Four-Book Novel; The Hamlet, New American Library, 1958.
- The Mansion (third book in the "Snopes Trilogy"; also see below), Random House, 1959.
- The Reivers, a Reminiscence, Random House, 1962.
- Mayday, University of Notre Dame Press, 1976.
- Father Abraham, Random House, 1984, published as Father Abraham, 1926, Garland Publishing, 1987.
- Elmer, edited by Dianne L. Cox, foreword by James B. Meriwether, Seajay Society, 1984.
- Humo/Smoke, Aims International Books, 1998.