William Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949 and the Pulitzer Prize for The Reivers just before his death in July1962. During the 1930s, he worked in Hollywood on film scripts, notably The Blue Lamp, co-written with Raymond Chandler. As I Lay Dying (1930), Sanctuary (1931), Light in August (1932), Absalom, Absalom! (1936) and The Wild Palms (1939) are the key works of his great creative period leading up to Intruder in the Dust (1948). As I Lay Dying chronicles the dark, comic story of a Mississippi familys long and arduous journey to bury Addie, the family matriarch. His first book of verse and early novels followed, but his major work began with the publication of The Sound and the Fury in 1929. His first poem was published in The New Republic in 1919. Returning home, he studied at the University of Mississippi and visited Europe briefly in 1925. William Faulkner, one of the greatest writers of the. Rejected by the US military in 1915, he joined the Canadian flyers with the RAF, but was still in training when the war ended. This edition reproduces the corrected text of As I Lay Dying as established in 1985 by Noel Polk. He grew up in Oxford, Mississippi, and left high school at fifteen to work in his grandfather's bank. Born in 1897 in New Albany, Mississippi, William Faulkner was the son of a family proud of their prominent role in the history of the south.
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