William Faulkner

William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American novelist and short-story writer whose major work is set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi — a stand-in for the Lafayette County where he spent most of his life. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1949 and is commonly ranked among the most influential writers of the twentieth century. He died in July 1962, four years before the first known printing of the quip credited to him here.