Cheater.

Faulkner, apparently, had two extramarital affairs. (Good writer, bad husband?) First was with Meta Carpenter. Second was with Joan Williams, a young writer who thought Faulkner to be her mentor. Williams's novel The Wintering is about her love affair with him. I just looked up one of his very famous works, As I Lay Dying, and saw one of the plot lines is about an extramarital affair. It'll be interesting to see if any similar themes come up in The Sound and the Fury.

See http://www.lsu.edu/lsupress/bookPages/9780807122273.html and http://www.amazon.com/William-Faulkner-Joan-Williams-Romance/dp/0786425997 for more.

-- Emma Laperruque