Requiem for a Nun is a work of fiction written by William Faulkner which was first published in 1951. It is a sequel to Faulkner's early novel "Sanctuary", which introduced the characters of Temple Drake, her friend (later husband) Gowan Stevens, and Gowan's uncle Gavin Stevens. The events in "Requiem" are set in Faulkner's fictional Yoknapatawpha County and Jackson, Mississippi, in November 1937 and March 1938, eight years after the events of "Sanctuary". In "Requiem", Temple, now married with a child, must learn to deal with her violent, turbulent past as related in "Sanctuary".