Intruder in the Dust

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Intruder in the Dust is a novel by the Nobel Prize-winning American author William Faulkner. A novel (from Italian novella, Spanish novela, French nouvelle for "new" "news" or "short story The United States of America —commonly referred to as the William Faulkner (born William Cuthbert Falkner) ( September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was an American Author

The novel deals with the trial of Lucas Beauchamp, a black farmer accused of murdering a white man. A farmer is a person who raises living organisms for food or raw materials He is cleared through the efforts of black and white teenagers and a spinster from a long-established southern family. It was written as Faulkner's response as a Southern writer to the racial problems facing the South. In his Selected Letters, Faulkner wrote: "the premise being that the white people in the south, before the North or the Govt. or anybody else owe and must pay a responsibility to the negro". Negro is a term referring to people of Black African ancestry

Intruder in the Dust was turned into a MGM film directed by Clarence Brown in 1949 after MGM paid film rights of $50,000 to Faulkner. Clarence Brown ( May 10, 1890 &ndash August 17, 1987) was an American Film director. The United States dollar ( sign: $; code: USD) is the unit of Currency of the United States; it has also been The film was shot in Faulkner's home town of Oxford, Mississippi. Oxford is a city and the County seat of Lafayette County, Mississippi, United States.

In 1949, Faulkner won the Nobel prize for literature.

Intruder in the Dust is notable for its use of stream of consciousness style of narration.

The characters of Lucas Beauchamp and his wife, Molly, first appeared in Faulkner's previous novel, Go Down, Moses. Go Down Moses is an episodic novel by American author William Faulkner, consisting of seven short stories Also, a story by Faulkner, "Lucas Beauchamp", was published in 1999.

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Preceded by Go Down, Moses	Novels set in Yoknapatawpha County	Succeeded by The Town

Go Down Moses is an episodic novel by American author William Faulkner, consisting of seven short stories Yoknapatawpha County is a fictional county created by American author William Faulkner as a setting for many of his novels The Town is a novel by the American author William Faulkner, published in 1957 about the fictional Snopes family of Mississippi.

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