The Resume

(September 25, 1897-July 6, 1962)
Wrote 'Soldier's Pay (1926),' 'Mosquitoes (1927),' 'The Sound And The Fury (1929),' 'As I Lay Dying (1930),' 'Sanctuary (1931),' 'Light In August (1932),' 'The Unvanquished (1938),' 'Intruder In The Dust (1948),' 'The Town (1957)' and 'The Mansion (1959)'
Awarded Nobel Prize for Literature (1949)

Why he might be annoying:

He drank heavily.
He was hospitalized for depression.
He flunked out of High School.
Each time he became wealthy from a novel, he blew the money.
He allowed his Nobel Prize to go to his head.
He cheated on his wife when he was on overseas trips.

Why he might not be annoying:

He trained in Canada to join the British RAF.
He owned and flew his own airplane in 1930s America.
When his youngest brother was killed when the plane crashed in 1935, he saw to the education of his niece.

Credit: Fantom

Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

• 100 Greatest American Speeches of the 20th Century (Ranked: 33)
• Fantom's Profiles
• Golden Girls References
• I am on a U.S. Postage Stamp [D-G]
• I Attended University of Virginia
• I Did Not Graduate High School [F-I]
• I Died in 1962 (Ranked: 64)
• I Earned a High School Equivalency Diploma
• I Publicly Trashed My Book’s Movie
• Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century [1999] (Ranked: 34)
• Look at Me, I'm a Man in Shades
• Look at Me, I'm Relaxing
• Look at Me, I've Been Caught Smoking
• Male Pipe Smokers
• Modern Library's 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century [1998] (Ranked: 6)
• Modern Library's 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century [1998] (Ranked: 35)
• Modern Library's 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century [1998] (Ranked: 54)
• Nobel Prize for Literature
• NPR's 100 Best Literary Characters of the 20th Century [Authors - 2002] (Ranked: 69)
• NPR's 100 Best Literary Characters of the 20th Century [Authors - 2002] (Ranked: 97)
• Oprah's Book Club Selections (Ranked: 2005)
• Profiles 3501-3750 (Ranked: 3555)
• Satirized on Rocky and Bullwinkle
• Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity
• Time Magazine's All-Time 100 Novels [Authors]
• UK Guardian's James Runcie's Top 10 Books About Brothers [April 14, 2009] (Ranked: 2)
• World Literature Today Top 40 [2001] (Ranked: 1929)
• Writers Featured in the Barnes & Noble Authors Mural

Year In Review:

In 2023, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2022, Out of 33 Votes: 30.30% Annoying
In 2021, Out of 17 Votes: 52.94% Annoying
In 2020, Out of 17 Votes: 5.88% Annoying
In 2019, Out of 17 Votes: 35.29% Annoying
In 2018, Out of 1 Votes: 100% Annoying
In 2017, Out of 7 Votes: 42.86% Annoying
In 2016, Out of 3 Votes: 33.33% Annoying
In 2015, Out of 9 Votes: 55.56% Annoying
In 2014, Out of 21 Votes: 52.38% Annoying
In 2013, Out of 16 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
In 2012, Out of 15 Votes: 40.0% Annoying
In 2011, Out of 11 Votes: 81.82% Annoying
In 2010, Out of 23 Votes: 60.87% Annoying
In 2009, Out of 32 Votes: 40.62% Annoying
In 2008, Out of 40 Votes: 37.50% Annoying
In 2007, Out of 89 Votes: 56.18% Annoying
In 2006, Out of 136 Votes: 47.06% Annoying
In 2005, Out of 226 Votes: 47.79% Annoying
In 2004, Out of 349 Votes: 47.28% Annoying
In 2003, Out of 596 Votes: 45.13% Annoying
In 2002, Out of 1809 Votes: 48.92% Annoying