William Faulkner (1897–1962) was an American writer and Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner wrote novels, short stories, screenplays, poetry, essays, and a play. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949 and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction twice. In 1998, the Modern Library ranked his 1929 novel The Sound and the Fury sixth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century; as well as his As I Lay Dying (1930) and Light in August (1932). His short story “A Rose for Emily” was his first story published in a major magazine, the Forum, in 1930.