Short answers, pulled from the story.
William Faulkner was born on the 25th of September 1897 in New Albany, Mississippi. He lived in Oxford, Mississippi, for the rest of his life after his family moved there in 1902.
William Faulkner changed his surname from Falkner to Faulkner in 1918. The change was cemented by his 1918 Attestation Papers for the Royal Air Force (Canada) and reportedly began with a typesetter error on the title page of his first book.
William Faulkner worked on around 50 films in Hollywood from 1932 to 1954 to earn a consistent salary. He wrote screenplays for films such as To Have and Have Not and The Big Sleep while living a vagrant lifestyle in hotels like the Garden of Allah Hotel.
William Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949 and received it at a banquet in Stockholm in December 1950. He donated part of his Nobel money to establish the William Faulkner Foundation to support new fiction writers.
William Faulkner died of a fatal heart attack on the 6th of July 1962 at Wright's Sanatorium in Byhalia, Mississippi. His final novel, The Reivers, was published in 1962 and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.