These 13 is a collection of short stories written by William Faulkner, and dedicated to his first daughter Alabama, who died nine days after her birth on 11th January 1931, and to his wife Estelle.

Faulkner and his wife had a second daughter, Jill, on 24th June 1933. She suffered no known health issues, and was very close to her father. William Faulkner himself died in 1962.

These 13 was Faulkner's first major release of short stories.