Willie Morris wrote, Eggleston's “depiction of the rural Southern countryside speaks eloquently of the fictional world of Faulkner and, not coincidentally, the shared experience of almost every Southerner. Often lurid, always lyrical, his stark realism resonates with the language and tone of Faulkner's greatest mythic cosmos of Yoknapatawpha County .”
Eggleston acknowledged the affinity between himself and Faulkner with the publication of his book of photography, Faulkner's Mississippi, in 1990.