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Faulkner was also an acclaimed writer of mysteries, publishing a collection of crime fiction, ''Knight's Gambit'', that featured Gavin Stevens (who also appeared in [[Light in August]], [[Go Down, Moses]], [[The Town]], and the short story [[Hog Pawn]]), an attorney, wise to the ways of folk living in Yoknapatawpha County. He set many of his short stories and novels in his fictional [[Yoknapatawpha County]], based on--and nearly identical to in terms of geography--Lafayette County, of which his hometown of [[Oxford, Mississippi]] is the county seat; Yoknapatawpha was his very own "postage stamp" and it is considered to be one of the most monumental fictional creations in the history of literature. His former home in Oxford, [[Rowan Oak]], is operated as a museum by the [[University of Mississippi]].
In the later years Faulkner moved to [[Hollywood, California|Hollywood]] to be a screenwriter (producing scripts for [[Raymond Chandler]]'s ''[[The Big Sleep (1946 film)|The Big Sleep]]'' and [[Ernest Hemingway]]'s ''[[To Have and Have Not (film)|To Have and Have Not]]''
Faulkner was rather famous for drinking as well, and throughout his life was known to be an [[alcoholic]]. The hard-drinking character of Bill Mayhew in the Coen Brothers' movie ''[[Barton Fink]]'' was almost certainly based on Faulkner.
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