Short answers, pulled from the story.
William Cuthbert Faulkner was born on the 25th of September 1897 in New Albany, Mississippi. He grew up in Oxford, a town where his family lived for most of their lives after moving there in 1902.
William Faulkner began work on The Sound and the Fury in autumn 1928 and wrote around fifty films between 1932 and 1954 while working at MGM Studios. His screenplay To Have and Have Not released in early 1944 starred Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart as the only film featuring contributions from two Nobel laureates since Hemingway also contributed.
The Swedish Academy awarded William Faulkner the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature for his powerful contribution to the modern American novel. The ceremony took place in Stockholm in December 1950 where he met Else Jonsson, widow of journalist Thorsten Jonsson.
Gabriel García Márquez created fictional worlds like Macondo very much in the vein of Yoknapatawpha County while Mario Vargas Llosa claimed he learned more from Yoknapatawpha during student years than from actual classes. Cormac McCarthy has been described as a disciple of Faulkner whose influence extends globally across Latin America and Europe.
After death Estelle and daughter Jill lived at Rowan Oak until her passing in 1972 when property sold to University of Mississippi. Manuscripts correspondence personal papers and over three hundred books now reside at Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library at University of Virginia.