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With very complicated feelings to black people, with the past American historical incidents of slavery and civil war haunting in their lives throughout the first half of the 19th century, Faulkner marvelously wrote the lives of low people in the South. One hardly images it's the mistakes they made, the crimes they committed and the stupidity they have borne throughout their lives constitute this "Masterpiece".

William Faulkner was the Nobel Laureate of 1949.

I bought a book " The Hills Beyond" by accident a couple of years ago and got to know this novelist who died much too young(1900~1938). "The Hills Beyond" was published by Wolfe's editor after he perished. Wolfe was a very talented and hard working writer who wrote about broad topics, some are quite sad, some are very brilliant. The same figures would turn up in different stories to complete a long story that unfolds throughout several decades. Readers would grow up with his personages and laugh and tear with them.
The achievement Wolfe has reached is far beyond his too short life, one would be deeply touched by his extraordinary novels and his devotion to writing.