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Sin and Salvation is a series of Southern literature by American author William Faulkner. The series is set in Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi and takes place following World War I. The books in the series are consistently ranked among the best and most important novels of the 20th century.

William Faulkner (1897-1962) was an American author of novels, short stories, plays, poetry, essays and screenplays. A lifelong resident of Mississippi, Faulkner is one of the most important authors of Southern literature and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949. His writing is often “stream of consciousness” and utilizes a vast array of characters […]

Lee Smith is an American author of Southern gothic fiction. Lee was writing stories while living in the Appalachian Mountains in Southwestern Virginia and selling them for a nickel each. Lee has won the O. Henry Award, the American Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Fiction and the North Carolina Award for Literature.

Anne Rivers Siddons was an American novelist of Southern literature. She was born on January 9th, 1936 and passed away on September 11th, 2019. Her novel The House Next Door was adapted to a TV movie on Lifetime, starring Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Colin Ferguson and Lara Flynn Boyle. The novel was referred to as one of […]