Nobel laureate · birth-card coordinate
William Faulkner's Birth Card: The Queen of Hearts
The Devoted Nurturer
A birth card is a calendar coordinate for the month and day. It is not fortune-telling and does not predict a Nobel Prize.
In the record
William Cuthbert Faulkner ( FAWK-nər; né Falkner; September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer. The birth-card coordinate for September 25 is the Queen of Hearts — a calendar position, not a forecast of the 1949 Literature prize.
Nobel Prize record
- 1949 The Nobel Prize in Literature — for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel
1949 — The Nobel Prize in Literature
“for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel”
No one else in this set holds the 1949 Literature prize; William Faulkner appears here as its sole listed laureate. The award was divided; this laureate's listed portion is 1.
116 other Literature laureates in this set carry a birth-card coordinate.
The Queen of Hearts coordinate
William Faulkner's birthday maps to the Queen of Hearts (The Devoted Nurturer). Card Blueprints treats that as a 365-day coordinate: solar value = 55 − (2 × month + day), and the year is unused. It is not a prediction about a Nobel Prize and not a verdict on William Faulkner. The card's own language, quoted as system copy rather than biography: You take care of people from presence, not from scanning for what they might need next.
William Faulkner in the public record
He is best known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, a stand-in for Lafayette County where he spent most of his life. Winner of the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature, Faulkner is one of the most celebrated writers of American literature, often considered the greatest writer of Southern literature and regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century. Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi, and raised in Oxford, Mississippi. During World War I, he joined the Royal Canadian Air Force, but did not serve in combat. Returning to Oxford, he attended the University of Mississippi for three semesters before dropping out. He moved to New Orleans, where he wrote his first novel Soldiers' Pay (1925). He went back to Oxford and wrote Sartoris (1927), his first work set in Yoknapatawpha County. In 1929, he published The Sound and the Fury.
Summarised from the lead section of the Wikipedia article William Faulkner (CC BY-SA 4.0). No biographical facts were written for this page beyond that article.
Where the record meets the 9 of Clubs
A card is a calendar coordinate, not a cause. What follows sets one line of the card's own published language beside one sentence of the sourced record, paired by a documented rule. It is a resemblance offered for the reader to weigh — not a claim about William Faulkner, and not a forecast of a Nobel Prize.
Cards in William Faulkner's fixed path
Birth card and karma
- Q♥ — Birth Card: The Devoted Nurturer
- 9♣ — Karma — Environment: The Humanitarian Builder
- 10♠ — Karma — Displacement: The Completed Mind
Life Spread (Mercury → Result / Cosmic Reward)
- 10♣ — Life Spread — Mercury
- K♠ — Life Spread — Mars
- 3♥ — Life Spread — Jupiter
- A♣ — Life Spread — Saturn
- Q♣ — Life Spread — Uranus
- 5♣ — Life Spread — Pluto
- 3♦ — Life Spread — Result / Cosmic Reward
Planetary ruling card, karma and Life Spread
Birth card from the month and day. Karma cards are fixed to the birth card. The planetary ruling card comes from the sun sign's ruling planet — the signs with two rulers carry two. The Life Spread is the birth card's fixed row of nine in the Life Spread — the cards that colour each 52-day period for life. Planetary period and long-range cards move year by year and are not shown on a static page.
Visionary thinking and big-picture perspective
Winner of the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature, Faulkner is one of the most celebrated writers of American literature, often considered the greatest writer of Southern literature and regarded as one of the most influential and important writers of the 20th century.
Paired on the mind and communication — the domain ♣ governs in this system. Markers in the record: literature, writer.
Also on the record
- The following year, he wrote As I Lay Dying.
- Later that decade, he wrote Light in August; Absalom, Absalom!; and The Wild Palms.
- He also worked as a screenwriter, contributing to Howard Hawks's To Have and Have Not and The Big Sleep, adapted from Raymond Chandler's novel.
- The former film, adapted from Ernest Hemingway's novel, is the only film with contributions by two Nobel laureates.
Other laureates with this card
- Albert A. Michelson — 1907 Physics
- Ales Bialiatski — 2022 Peace
- Carl Bosch — 1931 Chemistry
- Charles G. Dawes — 1925 Peace
- Dag Hammarskjöld — 1961 Peace
- Daniel L. McFadden — 2000 Economic Sciences
- Eric Cornell — 2001 Physics
- Eyvind Johnson — 1974 Literature
- Felix Bloch — 1952 Physics
- George D. Snell — 1980 Physiology or Medicine
- Il´ja M. Frank — 1958 Physics
- Isidor Isaac Rabi — 1944 Physics
- 3 more laureates share this card.
FAQ
- What is William Faulkner's birth card?
- The Queen of Hearts. September 25 maps to that card through the public Card Blueprints formula. The year of birth is not used.
- Does a birth card predict a Nobel Prize?
- No. These pages are coordinates, not fortune-telling. A birth card names a calendar day in a 52-card year. It does not forecast prizes, character, or fate.
- Where do William Faulkner's dates come from?
- Birth date 1897-09-25 is the Nobel Prize API v2.1 day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (CC0, day precision, Gregorian preferred). The two sources match. Year-only Nobel dates and Nobel↔Wikidata conflicts are dropped, not guessed. Page hooks and evidence come from the Wikipedia REST summary (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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Sources: Nobel Prize API v2.1 (laureate 620) + Wikidata CC0 (Q38392) + Wikipedia CC BY-SA 4.0 (William Faulkner). Birth date 1897-09-25 is the Nobel day-precision date, verified against Wikidata P569 (match).