Yoknapatawpha County
Fictional Mississippi county created by William Faulkner / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Yoknapatawpha County (/jɒknəpəˈtɔːfə/) is a fictional Mississippi county created by the American author William Faulkner, largely based on and inspired by Lafayette County, Mississippi, and its county seat of Oxford (which Faulkner renamed "Jefferson"). Faulkner often referred to Yoknapatawpha County as "my apocryphal county".[1][2][3]
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