Big Woods: The Hunting Stories of William Faulkner

The hunter and the hunted are portrayed in four stories with preludes and an epilogue that link the individual narratives.

William Faulkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi, on September 25, 1897. Faulkner had begun writing poems when he was a schoolboy and published a poetry collection in 1924 at his own expense. In 1950, Faulkner traveled to Sweden to accept the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature. He died of a heart attack on July 6, 1962.