William Faulkner, whose 19 novels and numerous short stories, all relating to the south, form a profound scrutiny of the problems with which the south has been beleaguered. Faulkner struggled to add to the American renaissance of the 1920s and helped usher in a whole new group of southern authors of the 1930s such as Katherine Anne Porter, Eudora Welty, and Carson McCullers. In his 19 novels and three volumes of short stories, the Deep South is delineated in as minute as possible. Faulkner's works have been termed the Yoknapatawpha saga in which he writes about the histories of a number of southern aristocratic families. In the very rise of these family fortunes, Faulkner sees their inevitable fall because they have displaced the Indians and enslaved the black race, thus putting a curse upon the land. When the same story of the tragic rise and fall recurs in one novel after another, it assumes symbolic proportion. It becomes clear that what Faulkner is talking about concerns not merely the American south but the human situation in general.