Question: Were James Lee Burke and William Faulkner from the same country?

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Collected Stories of William Faulkner: Collected Stories of William Faulkner is a short story collection by William Faulkner published by Random House in 1950.  It won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1951.  The publication of this collection of 42 stories was authorized and supervised by Faulkner himself, who came up with the themed section headings.

Heaven's Prisoners: Heaven's Prisoners is a 1996 American crime drama thriller film directed by Phil Joanou and starring Alec Baldwin, Kelly Lynch, Mary Stuart Masterson, Teri Hatcher and Eric Roberts.  It is based on a Dave Robicheaux homonymous novel by James Lee Burke.  Harley Peyton and Scott Frank wrote the screenplay.

DeLauné Michel: DeLauné Michel is an American author and actress.  She was raised in southern Louisiana in a literary family which includes her uncle, Andre Dubus; her mother, Elizabeth Nell Dubus; and her cousins, mystery writer James Lee Burke, Andre Dubus III ("House of Sand and Fog"), and Alafair Burke.

In the Electric Mist: In the Electric Mist (French title: Dans la brume électrique) is a 2009 Franco-American mystical drama film directed by Bertrand Tavernier, written by Jerzy Kromolowski and Mary Olson-Kromolowski based on the novel "In the Electric Mist with Confederate Dead" by James Lee Burke, and stars Tommy Lee Jones in the lead role of Louisiana police detective Dave Robicheaux.

That Evening Sun: "That Evening Sun" is a short story by the American author William Faulkner, published in 1931 on the collection "These 13", which included Faulkner's most anthologized story, "A Rose for Emily".  The story was originally published, in a slightly different form, as "That Evening Sun Go Down" in "The American Mercury" in March of the same year.  "That Evening Sun" is a dark portrait of white Southerners' indifference to the crippling fears of one of their black employees, Nancy.  The story is narrated by Quentin Compson, one of Faulkner's most memorable characters, and concerns the reactions of him and his two siblings, Caddy and Jason, to an adult world that they do not fully understand.  The black washerwoman, Nancy Mannigoe, fears that her common-law husband Jesus is seeking to murder her because she is pregnant with a white man's child.  The title is thought to be taken from the song Saint Louis Blues, originally composed by W.C. Handy, but popularized by Bessie Smith and Louis Armstrong in 1927.  Faulkner first came across Handy's music when the latter played dances in Oxford, Mississippi.  Though the song is never explicitly referenced in the text, Faulkner employs a number of blues tropes to structure the plot and develop racial stereotypes.  Scholar Ken Bennett notes that "the image of the 'evening sun' is a common one in black religious music.  For example, the spiritual 'It's Gettin' Late Over in the Evenin', the Sun Most Down,' based on Revelation 20, uses the image of the evening sun to suggest the coming of death and judgment."

Dave Robicheaux: Dave Robicheaux (pronounced "Row-buh-show") is a fictional character in a series of mystery novels by American crime writer James Lee Burke.

The Tin Roof Blowdown: The Tin Roof Blowdown (2007) is a crime novel by American author James Lee Burke.

James Lee Burke: James Lee Burke (born December 5, 1936) is an American author of mysteries, best known for his Dave Robicheaux series.  He has won Edgar Awards for "Black Cherry Blues" (1990) and "Cimarron Rose" (1998), and has also been presented with the Grand Master Award from the Mystery Writers of America.  The Robicheaux character has been portrayed twice on screen, first by Alec Baldwin ("Heaven's Prisoners") and then Tommy Lee Jones ("In the Electric Mist").

Rowan Oak: Rowan Oak, also known as William Faulkner House, is William Faulkner's former home in Oxford, Mississippi.  It is a primitive Greek Revival house built in the 1840s by Robert Sheegog.  Faulkner purchased the house when it was in disrepair in the 1930s and did many of the renovations himself.  Other renovations were done in the 1950s.  The house sits on 4 landscaped and twenty nine acres of largely wooded property known as Bailey's Woods.  One of its more famous features is the outline of Faulkner's Pulitzer Prize–winning novel "A Fable", penciled in graphite and red on the plaster wall of his study.  Though the "rowan oak" is a mythical tree, the grounds and surrounding woods of Rowan Oak contain hundreds of species of native Mississippi plants, most of which date back to antebellum times.  The alley of cedars that lines the driveway was common in the 19th century.  The studs of the house are 4"x4" square cypress, which were hand-hewn.  Faulkner drew much inspiration for his treatment of multi-layered Time from Rowan Oak, where past and future seemed to inhabit the present.

William Faulkner: William Cuthbert Faulkner ( ; September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American writer and Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford, Mississippi.  Faulkner wrote novels, short stories, a play, poetry, essays, and screenplays.  He is primarily known for his novels and short stories set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, based on Lafayette County, Mississippi, where he spent most of his life.

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