Collected Stories of William Faulkner

William Faulkner (1897-1962) was an American writer best known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, including The Sound and the Fury (1929), As I Lay Dying (1930), and Absalom, Absalom! (1936). He won the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel, as well as two Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction.