For 10 points each, name this author from Mississippi who used Yoknapatowpha County as the setting of his novels As I Lay Dying and The Sound and the Fury.
In this author's last novel, Ned bribes Lightning to win a race with a fish, and Boon Hogganbeck marries the prostitute Miss Corrie. This author wrote a short story ending with the image of a "long strand of iron-gray hair" in a bed next to a man killed with arsenic marked "For Rats," Homer Barron. Besides writing The (*) Reivers and "A Rose for Emily," this author wrote a book partly narrated by the mentally retarded Benjy and the suicidal Quentin Compson. For 10 points each, name this author from Mississippi who used Yoknapatowpha County as the setting of his novels As I Lay Dying and The Sound and the Fury.
In this author's last novel, Ned bribes Lightning to win a race with a fish, and Boon Hogganbeck marries the prostitute Miss Corrie.
William {Faulkner}