It's one of the most important short stories of the 20th century but received little notice from the public, and his career was underway. After her death, the corpse of her lover from so long ago is found in bed in her house, a gray hair on the pillow next to him, indicating that it was Emily's custom to sleep with the desiccated corpse. It was called "A Rose for Emily," a story about Emily Grierson, a woman of southern antebellum aristocracy who lives alone after a failed love affair decades before in her youth. His literary reputation grew in 1930, when he was 33, with his first short story published in a national magazine. It had been stored under a stairwell and forgotten.
Faulkner's Nobel Prize itself was found after his death in his home, Rowen Oak, his 33-acre estate in Oxford, Mississippi. His 17-year-old daughter learned about his Nobel only because she was told about it in school. He wasn't particularly impressed by those awards and accomplishments. He wrote poetry, screenplays, short stories, and novels, and achieved his greatest fame with tales of the fictional Yoknapatawpha County in the post-Civil War deep south. He was awarded the Nobel Prize, two Pulitzers, two National Book Awards, and he was further immortalized by the USPS with a two-cent stamp with his image, including his ever-present pipe. William Faulkner achieved more in the context of Southern literature than any other writer. A portrait of William Faulkner by Artur Lopes
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