Snake

A reclusive genius whose dark art consumed him utterly.

William Faulkner was notoriously introverted, private, and deeply obsessive about his craft — characteristics that define the snake personality. He shunned literary fame, was famously prickly and difficult in public life, and retreated to his Mississippi home to build his dense, labyrinthine fictional universe of Yoknapatawpha County. His writing was meticulous, brooding, and misunderstood by many, yet beneath the difficult exterior lay one of the most brilliant and innovative literary minds of the 20th century.