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Dry September;Introduce the author Introduce the story Anti-hero;William Cuthbert Faulkner?(born?Falkner, 1897 –1962) an American writer and Nobel Prize laureate Famous for his novels and short stories, many of which are set in the fictional?Yoknapatawpha County. ;Yoknapatawpha County?is a?fictional county?created by the American author?William Faulkner, based upon and inspired byLafayette County, Mississippi, and its county seat of?Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner would often refer to Yoknapatawpha County as my apocryphal county. From?Sartoris?onwards, Faulkner would set all but three of his novels in the county (Pylon,?The Wild Palms?and?A Fable?were set elsewhere).;Faulkner added a map of Yoknapatawpha County at the end of?Absalom, Absalom! The word?Yoknapatawpha?is pronounced?[j?kn?p??t?f?]?. It is derived from two?Chickasaw?words—Yoconaand?petopha, meaning split land. Faulkner claimed to a University of Virginia audience that the compound means water flows slow through flat land.Yoknapatawpha?was the original name for the actual Yocona River, a tributary of the Tallahatchie which runs through the southern part of?Lafayette County,of which?Oxford?is the seat. ;one of the most important writers in both?American literature?generally and?Southern literaturespecifically Two of his works, A Fable (1954) and his last novel?The Reivers?(1962), won the?Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.;The Sound and the Fury (1929) As I Lay Dying (1930) Light in August (1932) Absalom, Absalom! (1936) Famous short stories: A Rose for Emily That Evening Sun Read Leaves Dry September ;1. history and race He explains the present by examining the past, by telling the stories of several generations of family to show how history changes life, He was interested in the relationship between blacks and whites, especially concerned about the problems of the people who were of the mixed race of black and white, unacceptable to both races.;2. deterioration 3. conflicts between generations, classes, races, ma