How many novels are set in Yoknapatawpha County?
Of the nineteen novels published during Faulkner’s lifetime, all but five are set in Yoknapatawpha County. The five and their settings are • Soldiers’s Pay (set in Charlestown, Georgia), • Mosquitoes (New Orleans), • Pylon (set in a thinly disguised New Orleans), • The Wild Palms (set primarily in Mississippi and the far West), and • A Fable (set in France during World War I). In addition to the novels, most of his short stories are also set in Yoknapatawpha County.
