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A family mourns over a girl’s death as they take her to bury her in Mississippi. As I Lay Dying is a classic novel by William Faulkner. Summary of the Book Addie Bundren’s death left her family shaken. As they cart the coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi, they relate her story, pining away for her as they take her to bury her among her people. Entirely American in essence, it is a story of strong emotions, history and meaning. About William Faulkner William Cuthbert Faulkner was an American writer, known for writing Light in August, Absalom, Absalom! and A Fable. Faulkner won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Nobel Prize for Literature for his contribution to English literature. This book was adapted into a film by James Franco.