" For 10 points, name this American author of A Rose for Emily and As I Lay Dying.
One work by this man begins with the narrator saying that he and Ringo are "the two supreme undefeated like two moths, two feathers riding above a hurricane," and in a section of that work titled "An Odor of Verbena," Bayard confronts Ben Redmond in his office while unarmed. The titular woman of one of this man's short stories was said to be "a tradition, a duty, and a care," by the townspeople, and this man wrote a series of seven stories including one in which Boon Hogganbeck kills Old Ben. Those stories involving Ike (*) McCaslin are collectively considered the novel Go Down, Moses. Joe was kidnapped from an orphanage and taken to Little Rock before fleeing to Mississippi and selling moonshine in this author's Light in August, and another of his novels contains a chapter that simply says "My mother is a fish." For 10 points, name this American author of A Rose for Emily and As I Lay Dying.
One work by this man begins with the narrator saying that he and Ringo are "the two supreme undefeated like two moths, two feathers riding above a hurricane," and in a section of that work titled "An Odor of Verbena," Bayard confronts Ben Redmond in his office while unarmed.
William Faulkner