Intruder in the Dust

Taking place in Mississippi, it revolves around an African-American farmer accused of murdering a Caucasian man.

The characters of Lucas Beauchamp and his wife, Molly, first appeared in Faulkner's collection of short fiction, Go Down, Moses.

The character Gavin Stevens appears as a protagonist in Faulkner's short story collection Knight's Gambit (1949).

In 1950, Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for "his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel.

[3] John E. Bassett has commented that this novel represents a "serious attempt to explore contemporary Southern racism through Gavin and Chick.