what was william faulkner known for?
Background to Danger Flesh The Big Sleep The Long, Hot Summer To Have and Have Not Land of the Pharaohs Mildred Pierce Submarine Patrol Gunga Din Drums Along the Mohawk
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 As a roman à clef , the novel bases its characters on living people , causing scandal in the expatriate community . Hemingway biographer Carlos Baker writes that " word @-@ of @-@ mouth of the book " helped sales . Parisian expatriates gleefully tried to match the fictional characters to real identities . Moreover , he writes that Hemingway used prototypes easily found in the Latin Quarter on which to base his characters . The early draft identified the characters by their living counterparts ; Jake 's character was called Hem , and Brett 's was called Duff . 

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 In a public lecture and reading of the novel in Oakland , California , Chabon listed creative influences as broad as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , Robert Altman , and William Faulkner . 

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 With the success of the Boom , the work of a previous generation of writers gained access to a new and expanded public . These precursors include Jorge Luis Borges , Miguel Ángel Asturias , Arturo Uslar Pietri and Alejo Carpentier , Juan Carlos Onetti , and Juan Rulfo . 

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 Ernest Miller Hemingway ( July 21 , 1899 – July 2 , 1961 ) was an American novelist , short story writer , and journalist . His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th @-@ century fiction , while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations . Hemingway produced most of his work between the mid @-@ 1920s and the mid @-@ 1950s , and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954 . He published seven novels , six short story collections , and two non @-@ fiction works . Additional works , including three novels , four short story collections , and three non @-@ fiction works , were published posthumously . Many of his works are considered classics of American literature . 

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 Although the stories and characters were fictional , a number of elements had a real life background , taken from people whom Fleming knew or events he was aware of . These included the spy 's name , which Fleming took from the American ornithologist James Bond , and the code number — 007 — which referred to the breaking of a World War I German diplomatic code . Some aspects of Bond 's character and tastes replicate those of Fleming himself . 
