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==Overview== The novel focuses on Lucas Beauchamp, a [[Black people|black]] farmer accused of murdering a [[White people|white]] man. He is [[exonerated]] through the efforts of black and white teenagers and a spinster from a long-established [[Southern United States|Southern]] family. It was written as Faulkner's response as a Southern writer to the racial problems facing the South. {{citation needed|date=September 2019}} ''Intruder in the Dust'' is notable for its use of [[stream of consciousness writing|stream of consciousness]] style of narration. The novel also includes lengthy passages on the Southern memory of the [[American Civil War]], one of which [[Shelby Foote]] quoted in [[Ken Burns]]' 1990 documentary ''[[The Civil War (TV series)|The Civil War]]''. The characters of Lucas Beauchamp and his wife, Molly, first appeared in Faulkner's collection of short fiction, ''[[Go Down, Moses (book)|Go Down, Moses]]''. A story by Faulkner, "Lucas Beauchamp", was published in 1999. The character [[Gavin Stevens (Faulkner character)|Gavin Stevens]] appears as a protagonist in Faulkner's short story collection ''[[Knight's Gambit]]'' (1949). ''Intruder in the Dust'' was turned into a [[Intruder in the Dust (1949 film)|film of the same name]] directed by [[Clarence Brown]] in 1949 after [[MGM]] paid film rights of $50,000 to Faulkner. The film was shot in Faulkner's home town of [[Oxford, Mississippi]]. In 1950, Faulkner was awarded the [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize for Literature]] for "his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1949|title=The Nobel Prize in Literature 1949 |publisher=Nobelprize.org |access-date=July 3, 2013}}</ref> The Nobel Prize was not specifically for his novel ''Intruder in the Dust'' but for the enduring contribution of his writing as a whole.
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