“You know how to whistle, don’t you, Steve?”

On July 5, 1962, noble laureate William Faulkner died of a heart attack at age 64.  Faulkner only became famous after receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature n 1949. He won two Pulitzer Prizes – in 1954 for A Fable and again in 1962 for his last novel, The Reivers.  His significance to the history of the 1960s is primarily as a milestone in the passing of a literary generation that included Earnest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald.  

Although he wrote his first novel in 1925, his income in the 1930s and ‘40s came primarily from screenwriting.  One of his most famous was the 1944 film To Have and Have Not, starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall.  Based on the Hemingway novel of the same title, It contains one of the classic movie lines of all times:

 If you like old movies and have never seen this one, it's definitely worth watching.

Hemingway and Faulkner had something of a rivalry.  Faulkner once said about Hemingway:

"He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary."

Hemingway, in his turn, said of Faulkner:

“Does he really think big emotions come from big words?”