re: When Was Southern Culture the Most Popular Nationally?

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When you mention southern literature, and you talk about John Grisham without mentioning William Faulkner, it distracts me to the point that I cannot focus on the question.

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Of course Faulkner is the undisputed king of southern literature, but my question is about recent/post WWII culture. Most of Faulkner's most important works were before the war, so I didn't mention him specifically, though I did make reference to that absence when I said that much of the most important southern lit was pre WWII.