. . . . "As I Lay Dying"@en . . . . "As I Lay Dying is a 1930 novel by American author William Faulkner. Faulkner said that he wrote the novel from midnight to 4:00 AM over the course of six weeks and that he did not change a word of it. Faulkner wrote it while working at a power plant, published it in 1930, and described it as a \"tour de force.\" Faulkner's fifth novel, it is consistently ranked among the best novels of 20th-century literature."@en . .