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William Faulkner
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William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer best known for novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, a stand-in for the Lafayette County where he spent most of his life. Winner of the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature for his powerful and unique contribution to the modern American novel, he is considered one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century and often the greatest writer of Southern literature, with novels including The Sound and the Fury (1929), As I Lay Dying (1930) and Absalom, Absalom!. Two of his works, A Fable (1954) and The Reivers (1962), won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, and Ralph Ellison called him the greatest artist the South has produced.
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