Oh, Shmoop is a home where the buffalo roam, where the nerds and the coolest kids play; where never is heard a discouraging word, and the Shmoints do flow freely all day.
Faulkner Bio Learn more about the man behind the book.
The Great Depression Faulkner wrote As I Lay Dying just after the stock market crash, and his depiction of a poverty-stricken family would predict the future of many Americans in the 1930s.