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Yoknapatawpha County
Yoknapatawpha County
is a
fictional county
created by the American author
William Faulkner
, based upon and inspired by
Lafayette County, Mississippi
, and its county seat of
Oxford, Mississippi
. Faulkner would often refer to Yoknapatawpha County as "my apocryphal county". From
Sartoris
onwards, Faulkner would set all but three of his novels in the county (
Pylon
,
The Wild Palms
and
A Fable
were set elsewhere).
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