Quick Facts About William Faulkner
- Born
- September 25, 1897
- Died
- July 6, 1962
- Nationality
- United States
- Profession
- Novelist
- Notable works
- Sanctuary
- Known for
- The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Light in August, A Rose for Emily, Absalom, Absalom!
- Spouse
- Estelle Oldham Faulkner
About William Faulkner
He spent most of his life in Lafayette County, which he used as the model for Yoknapatawpha. In 1949 he won the Nobel Prize in Literature, and many consider him the greatest writer of Southern literature and one of the most influential American authors of the twentieth century.
![“Yes sir. You can be more careless, you can put more trash in [a novel] and be excused for it. In a short story that's next to the poem, almost every word has got to be almost exactly right. In the novel you can be careless but in the short story you can't. I mean by that the good short stories…” quote by William Faulkner](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/ff6/william-faulkner-306_absolutes_yes-sir-you-can-be-more-careless-you-can_1716854.png)
![“She [Mrs. Hines] stood before the door as if she were barring them from the house--a dumpy, fat little woman with a round face like dirty and unovened dough, and a tight screw of scant hair.” quote by William Faulkner](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/361/william-faulkner-306_grotesque_she-mrs-hines-stood-before-the-door-as-i_2382797.png)
