Travel + Leisure named a Mississippi college town one of the best in the U.S. Find great food, books, shopping, more in this ...

World-famous author Faulkner lived there and wrote about it as Yoknapatawpha County. More recently, best-selling author John Grisham called it home.

We think of Thomas Hardy's Wessex (inspired by south and southwest England, particularly Dorset) or William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County (Lafayette County, Mississippi), places known through ...