Identify the author and the title of the work from which the quoted part is taken.
Reading Comprehension: Read the quoted parts carefully and answer the questions.For a long while we just stood there, looking down at the profound and fleshless grin. The body had apparently once lain in the attitude of an embrace,
but now the long sleep that outlasts love, that conquers even the grimace of love, had cuckolded him. What was left of him, rotted beneath what was left of the night-shirt, had become inextricable from the bed in which he lay; and upon him and upon the pillow beside him lay that even coating of the patient and biding dust.
Identify the author and the title of the work from which the quoted part is taken.
【正确答案】：
WILLIAM FAULKNER, A ROSE FOR EMILY.
【题目解析】：引文选自福克纳的《献给艾米丽的玫瑰》。
