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William Cuthbert Faulkner ( ___MASK9___ ___MASK92___ , 1897  July 6 , 1962 ) was an American writer and Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford , Mississippi . Faulkner wrote novels , short stories , a ___MASK4___ , poetry , essays , and screenplays . He is primarily known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County , based on Lafayette County , Mississippi , where he spent most of his life . A ___MASK13___ is a long ___MASK46___ , normally in ___MASK74___ , which describes fictional characters and events , usually in the form of a sequential story . A ___MASK64___ is a piece of prose fiction that can be read in one sitting . Emerging from earlier oral storytelling traditions in the 17th century , the ___MASK64___ has grown to encompass a body of ___MASK61___ so diverse as to defy easy characterization . At its most prototypical the ___MASK64___ features a small cast of named characters , and focuses on a self - contained incident with the intent of evoking a " single effect " or mood . In doing so , short stories make use of plot , resonance , and other dynamic components to a far greater degree than is typical of an anecdote , yet to a far lesser degree than a novel . While the ___MASK64___ is largely distinct from the novel , authors of both generally draw from a common pool of literary techniques . Mississippi is a ___MASK43___ in the southern region of the United States , with ___MASK98___ of its southern ___MASK14___ formed by the Gulf of Mexico . Its western ___MASK14___ is formed by the Mississippi ___MASK32___ . Lafayette ___MASK38___ is a ___MASK38___ in the U . S . state of Mississippi . As of the 2010 ___MASK72___ , the population was 47 , 351 . Its ___MASK38___ seat is Oxford . The local pronunciation of the name is " la - FAY - et ". The ___MASK38___ ' s name honors Marquis de Lafayette , a French ___MASK60___ ___MASK59___ and American general who fought during the American Revolutionary War . ___MASK55___ is the ___MASK54___ for any story or universe derived from imagination  in other words , not based strictly on ___MASK19___ or fact . ___MASK55___ can be expressed in a variety of formats , including writings , live performances , films , television programs , animations , video games , and role - playing games , though the term originally and most commonly refers to the narrative forms of literature ( see " literary " ___MASK55___ ), including the novel , novella , short story , and ___MASK4___ . ___MASK55___ constitutes an act of creative invention , so that faithfulness to reality is not typically assumed ; in other words , ___MASK55___ is not expected to present only characters who are actual people or descriptions that are factually true . The context of ___MASK55___ is generally open to interpretation , due to ___MASK55___ ' s freedom from any necessary embedding in reality ; however , some fictional works are claimed to be , or marketed as , historically or factually accurate , complicating the traditional distinction between ___MASK55___ and non - ___MASK55___ . ___MASK55___ is a ___MASK54___ or category , rather than a specific mode or genre , unless used in a narrower sense as a synonym for a particular literary ___MASK55___ form . Oxford is a ___MASK94___ in , and the ___MASK6___ of , Lafayette ___MASK38___ , Mississippi , United States . Founded in 1837 , it was named after the British ___MASK42___ ___MASK94___ of Oxford in hopes of having the state ___MASK42___ located there , which it did successfully attract . These 13 is a 1931 ___MASK71___ of short stories written by William Faulkner , and dedicated to his first daughter , Alabama , who died ___MASK80___ days after her birth on ___MASK85___ 11 , 1931 , and to his ___MASK25___ Estelle . No longer in print , " These 13 " is now a ___MASK81___  s item . Yoknapatawpha ___MASK38___ is a fictional ___MASK38___ created by the American author William Faulkner , based upon and inspired by Lafayette ___MASK38___ , Mississippi , and its ___MASK6___ of Oxford , Mississippi . Faulkner would often refer to Yoknapatawpha ___MASK38___ as " my apocryphal ___MASK38___ ". From " Sartoris " onwards , Faulkner would set all but three of his novels in the ___MASK38___ (" Soldiers ' Pay ", " ___MASK86___ ", " The Wild Palms " and " A Fable " were set elsewhere ), as well as over 50 of his stories in Yoknapatawpha ___MASK38___ . " Absalom , Absalom !" includes a map of Yoknapatawpha ___MASK38___ drawn by Faulkner . `` Red Leaves '' is a ___MASK64___ by American author William Faulkner . First published in the Saturday Evening Post on October ___MASK92___ , 1930 , it was one of Faulkner ' s first stories to appear in a national magazine . The next year the story was included in These 13 , Faulkner ' s first collection of short stories . `` Red Leaves '' has been described as `` a vision of the inexorable , brutal pattern of nature that decrees that every living thing must die '' . When writing the story , Faulkner is thought to have been influenced by Death in the Afternoon by Ernest Hemingway . The title of the story symbolizes the American Indian , specifically the Chickasaw : The red leaves referred to the Indians . It was the deciduation of nature that had suffocated , smothered , destroyed the Negro . The red leaves had nothing against him when they suffocated him and destroyed him . -- William Faulkner ___MASK74___ is a form of language that exhibits a grammatical structure and a natural flow of speech , rather than a rhythmic structure as in traditional poetry . Where the common unit of verse is based on meter or rhyme , the common unit of ___MASK74___ is purely grammatical , such as a sentence or ___MASK65___ . An anecdote is a brief , revealing ___MASK7___ of an individual person or an incident . Often humorous , anecdotes differ from jokes because their primary purpose is not simply to provoke laughter , but to reveal a truth more general than the brief tale itself , such as to characterize a person by delineating a specific quirk or trait , to communicate an abstract idea about a person , place , or thing through the concrete details of a short narrative . An anecdote is " a story with a point ." Storytelling is the social and cultural ___MASK76___ of ___MASK22___ stories , often with improvisation , theatrics , or embellishment . Stories or narratives have been shared in every ___MASK91___ as a means of ___MASK28___ , education , cultural preservation and instilling moral values . Crucial elements of stories and storytelling include plot , characters and ___MASK46___ ___MASK2___ of view . The term ' storytelling ' is used in a narrow sense to refer specifically to oral storytelling and also in a looser sense to refer to techniques used in other media to unfold or disclose the ___MASK46___ of a story .