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description: From William Cuthbert Faulkner (born Falkner, September 25, 1897 - July 6, 1962) was an American writer and Nobel Prize laureate from Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner worked in a variety of media; he wrote novels, short stories, a play, poetry, essays and screenplays during his career. 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.[1] ~ 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. 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.[2] Two of his works, A Fable (1954) and his last novel The Reivers (1962) won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. ~ 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). ~ As I Lay Dying is a novel by the American author William Faulkner. He claimed to have written the novel in six weeks and that he did not change a word of it. 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.[1][2][3][4] The title derives from Book XI of Homer's The Odyssey, wherein Agamemnon speaks to "As I lay dying, the woman with the dog's eyes would not close my eyes as I descended into Hades." ~ The novel is known for its stream of consciousness writing technique, multiple narrators, and varying chapter lengths...
language: English
title: As I Lay Dying
titlecomplete: As I Lay Dying
characters: Addie Bundren, Darl Bundren, Vardaman Bundren, Vernon Tull, Jewel Bundren, Anse Bundren, Cash Bundren, Cora Tull, Peabody, Dewey Dell
genres: Fiction, Southern Gothic, 20th Century, Classics, Southern, School, American, Literary Fiction, Literature, Novels
ratings_count: 162638
places: Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi, Mississippi, The United States of America
publisher: Vintage