What was William Faulkner’s first novel?

William Faulkner’s first novel was Soldiers’ Pay, published in 1926.1

The work is a stylistically ambitious novel that explores the sense of alienation felt by soldiers returning from World War I to a civilian life in which they no longer felt they belonged. While Faulkner had previously published a collection of poetry titled The Marble Faun in 1924, Soldiers’ Pay marked his first sustained attempt at writing fiction in the novel form.1