American writer William Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi in 1897. Much of his early work was poetry, but he became famous for his novels set in the American South, frequently in his fabricated Yoknapatawpha County, including Sartoris. In 1933, his controversial novel Sanctuary was turned into a Hollywood film. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature before his death in 1962.

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