What was the name of the fictional world created by William Faulkner?

Answer 1

Yoknapatawpha County

Yoknapatawpha County
Setting for much of William Faulkner's fiction

Faulker grew up in Oxford, MS, home of the University of Mississippi and the seat of Lafayette County. The region was called Yoknapatawpha by the Chicasaw and a river flowing here still bears an abbreviated form of the name.

Example:

"At which moment the destiny of the land, the nation, the South, the State, the County, was already whirling into the plunge of its precipice, not that the State and the South knew it, because the first seconds of fall always seems like soar: a weightless deliberation preliminary to a rush not downward but upward, the falling body reversed during that second by transubstantiation into the upward rush of earth; a soar, an apex, the South's own apotheosis of its destiny and its pride, Mississippi and Yoknapatawpha County not last in this, Mississippi among the first of the eleven to ratify secession."
-- Requiem for a Nun
William Faulkner

Answer 2

Check out http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/~egjbp/faulkner/faulkner.html

for tons of information on William Faulkner. The Ole Miss site includes literary criticism, study guides, maps of Yoknapatawpha County, and family trees that help clarify some of the more difficult works. Faulkner is the Father of Southern Literature. Like other "fathers," sometimes you need a little help to clearly understand Faulkner. The Ole Miss site is a great resource!

Answer 3

Oxford, MS is complete with london phone booths and double decker buses where he flunked out of freshman english at Ole Miss. Possibly the location of the this crazy county I can't spell.

Answer 4

Yoknapatawpha

Answer 5

You mean Yoknapatawpha County. I'm not sure of the spelling.