EXPLORE YOKNAPATAWPHA

Many of the scenes in As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury and Light in August occur in places rooted in the real world. Find out where fact meets fiction on this map that Faulkner himself drew.



Credits: William Faulkner's hand-drawn map of Yoknapatawpha originally appeared in Absalom, Absalom! (1936). This image was obtained from the Holtzman Faulkner Collection, Special Collections Library, University of Michigan.

Permissions granted by Jill Faulkner Summers and Lee Caplin/Picture Entertainment Corp., www.pictureentertainment.com. © Copyright 2005, Jill Faulkner Summers. All rights reserved.

Special thanks to Donald Kartiganer for his help with the map points.


Behind the Stories Faulkner 101 As I Lay Dying The Sound and the Fury Light in August