William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha.
William Faulkner was a novel writer from South America who was at one point the Nobel Prize winner.
During his childhood, he liked drawing as well as reading and writing poetry. With due course, he met Phil Stone, who was his mentor since he was impressed by his poetry. Stone nurtured Faulkner’s writing and even helped him publish his poetry and even his first novel.
With time, he became famous for bravely revealing social issues that most American writers left untouched and also his true and precise notation of the Southern speech.
The major issues that he wrote about included; the slavery of boys and the raping and kidnapping of children and young women which were major issues affecting the people. He used inspiring styles and even created a fictional Yoknapatawpha County that made him famous.
He wrote novels including; ‘The Sound and the Fury,’ ‘As I Lay Dying,’ ‘Light in August,’ ‘Absalom Absalom,’ ‘A Rose for Emily,’ ‘Go down Moses’ and much more. All his novels were established in Yoknapatawpha County. In 1949, he was granted the Nobel Prize for Literature together with other prizes like the 1955 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. He died in 1962 due to a heart attack but was still awarded his second Pulitzer in 1963 for the Reivers.
