Intruder in the Dust is a 1948 novel by William Faulkner. The story is based on the trial of Lucas Beaucamp, a black farmer, for murder of a white man. He is cleared due to 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 responsiblity to the negro. The novel was turned into a MGM film directed by Clarence Brown in 1949 after MGM paid film rights of $50,000 to Faulkner. The film was shot in Faulkner's hometown of Oxford, Mississippi. DeFoes Robinson Crusoe, Newspaper edition published in 1719 A novel (from French nouvelle, new) is an extended fictional narrative in prose. ... William Faulkner, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1954 William Cuthbert Faulkner (September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) was a Nobel Prize-winning novelist from Mississippi. ... Farmer spreading grasshopper bait in his alfalfa field. ... Negro means black in both Spanish and Portuguese languages, being derived from the Latin word niger of the same meaning. ... MGM logo Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer or MGM, is a large media company, involved primarily in the production and distribution of cinema and television programs. ... Clarence Brown (May 10, 1890 – August 17, 1987) was an American film director. ... The United States dollar is the official currency of the United States. ... Oxford is a city located in Lafayette County, Mississippi. ...

Intruder in the Dust is notable for its use of stream of consciousness style of narration. In psychology and philosophy stream of consciousness, introduced by William James, is the set of constantly changing inner thoughts and sensations which an individual has while conscious, used as a synonym for stream of thought. ...

External References

• John Anderson page on William Faulkner

• IMDb article on Intruder in the Dust

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