a mutation, a college town, a magnet for writers, thinkers and oddballs, drawn, perhaps, by the rich literary tradition is william faulkner. a mississippi native, a former postman and outdoorsman and an eventual winner of the nobel prize of literature and two p h pulitzer prizes. this was his house. faulkner wrote such classics as "the sound and fury," "as i lay dying," and many of his works took place in a fictional county. a place very much like this place in mississippi. >> this is where faulkner started his writing career in this room here. >> for the past ten years, bill griffith has been curator at william faulkner's estate. >> on the wall here is an outline of one of his shovels.