This author's Sartoris is the first of many set in a fictional county based on the author's home county of Lafayette. This author set his Snopes Trilogy in the town of Jefferson in that same fictional county, which represented the real-life city of Oxford, Mississippi. This author wrote As I Lay Dying about the struggles of the Bundren family, and The Sound and the Fury concerned the Compson family. For 10 points, name this Mississippi-born writer who created Yoknapatawpha County and its various families such as the McCaslins and the Sutpens.
a) F. Scott Fitzgerald
b) William Faulkner
c) Ernest Hemingway
d) John Steinbeck