One story by this author 
One story by this author opens with a man testifying in court about a neighbor who refused to mend his pigpen, allowing a hog to keep escaping. In that story by him, a character is charged ten bushels of corn for purposely ruining a manure-stained rug after being ordered to clean it. In another story by him, a druggist writes a label saying "for rats" after a customer refuses to explain her plans for (*) arsenic. Major de Spain stops an arson attempt by Abner Snopes at the end of a story by him. Another of his stories ends with single strand of grey hair in the nostrils of the corpse of Homer Barron, indicating the title woman had been sleeping with the dead body. For 10 points, name this Southern author of "Barn Burning" and "A Rose for Emily".
One story by this author opens with a man testifying in court about a neighbor who refused to mend his pigpen, allowing a hog to keep escaping.
William Faulkner [or William Cuthbert Faulkner]