William Cuthbert Faulkner

"A Rose for Emily" is a short story by American author William Faulkner first published in the April 30, 1930. William Cuthbert Faulkner September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer, who  wrote novels, short stories, a play, poetry, essays, and screenplays. He is primarily known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where he spent most of his life. Faulkner published twenty novels, several volumes of short fiction and two volumes of poetry. He travelled wildly, giving lectures at American colleges as well as foreign universities. He won two Pulitzer Prizes, a National Book Award and the Nobel Prize for Literature. His most famous works are: The Sound and the Fury,  As I Lay Dying,  Light in August, Absalom, Absalom!, Red Leaves,  The Hamlet, The Town etc.