3. By: Rasha Qandeel

5. William Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi, in 1897. One of the twentieth century’s greatest writers, Faulkner earned his fame from a series of novels that explore the South’s historical legacy, its fraught and often tensely violent present, and its uncertain future. This grouping of major works includes The Sound and the Fury (1929), As I Lay Dying (1930), Light in August (1931), and Absalom, Absalom! (1936), all of which are rooted in Faulkner’s fictional Mississippi county, Yoknapatawpha.

7. A Rose for Emily” was the first short story that Faulkner published in a major magazine. It appeared in the April 30, 1930, issue of Forum. Despite the earlier publication of several novels, when Faulkner published this story he was still struggling to make a name for himself in the United States

11. Characters: Emily Grierson Homer Barron Mr. Grierson Judge Stevens Tobe Colonel Sartoris

14. Despite his attributes, the townspeople view him as poor, if not scandalous, choice for mate. He disappears in Emily house and decomposes in an attic bedroom after she kills him.