Richard Wright describes what it was like growing up in Jim Crow-era Mississippi.

The autobiography of the fiction writer Eudora Welty whose honors include the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award for fiction.

His visit spurred him to write a revelatory book about the work of one of our greatest but still least-understood American writers.

Before leaving, City is given a strange book without an author called Long Division. He learns that one of the book's main characters is also named City Coldson--but Long Division is set in 1985.

The text of this Norton Critical Edition is that of the corrected edition scrupulously prepared by Noel Polk, whose textual note precedes the text.

Black family growing up in rural Mississippi.

This edition reproduces the corrected text of As I Lay Dying as established in 1985 by Noel Polk.

As the twelve days that make up the novel's framework yield to a dramatic conclusion, this unforgettable family - motherless children sacrificing for one another as they can, protecting and nurturing where love is scarce - pulls itself up ...

"A searing and profound Southern odyssey through Mississippi's past and present"--

Selections from the works of William Faulkner.