I could write a concise biography of Faulkner referencing Yoknapatawpha County, the Snopes Trilogy, his poetry, his letters, his short stories, and his life. I could say something clever about how he prevailed when an early editor misspelled Falkner's name as Faulkner, and how he embraced the typo as his nom de plume. With thus modesty, he became his work.