William Faulkner (1897—1962) was an American writer who won the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is best known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, a stand-in for his hometown of Oxford in Lafayette County, Mississippi. Faulkner made his debut as a published writer at the age of 21 with the poem "L'Après-midi d'un Faune", which appeared... Wikipedia