Joel Williamson
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William Faulkner and Southern History
Joel Williamson
One of America’s greatest novelists, William Faulkner was a writer deeply rooted in the American South. In works such as The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Light in August, and Absalom, Absalom!, Faulkner drew powerfully on Southern themes, attitudes, and atmosphere to create his own world and place—the mythical Yoknapatawpha County—peopled with quintessential Southerners such as the Compsons and Sartorises. Indeed, to a degree perhaps unmatched by any other major twentieth-century novelist, Faulkner remained at home and explored…
