Faulkner wrote it while working at a power plant, published in 1930, and described it as a "tour-de-force." It is Faulkner's fifth novel and consistently ranked among the best novels of 20th century literature. He claimed to have written the novel in six weeks and that he did not change a word of it. ~ As I Lay Dying is a novel by the American author William Faulkner.
~ In 1998, the Modern Library ranked his 1929 novel The Sound and the Fury sixth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century also on the list were 1930's As I Lay Dying and Light in August (1932). Two of his works, A Fable (1954) and his last novel The Reivers (1962) won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Though his work was published as early as 1919, and largely during the 1920s and 1930s, Faulkner was relatively unknown until receiving the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature. ~ Faulkner is considered one of the most important writers of the Southern literature of the United States, along with Mark Twain, Robert Penn Warren, Flannery O'Connor, Truman Capote, Eudora Welty, Thomas Wolfe, Harper Lee and Tennessee Williams. He is primarily known and acclaimed for his novels and short stories, many of which are set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, a setting Faulkner created based on Lafayette County, where he spent most of his childhood. Faulkner worked in a variety of media he wrote novels, short stories, a play, poetry, essays and screenplays during his career. From Wikipedia: William Cuthbert Faulkner (born Falkner, SeptemJuly 6, 1962) was an American writer and Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford, Mississippi.
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