The Noble Prize winner American Writer, William Faulkner has written many critically acclaimed short stories, plays, screenplays, essays and novels. He is considered to be one of the most important writers of the American southern literature and ranked shoulder to shoulder with other significant writers such as Robert Penn, Harper Lee, Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams of the same genre. Surprisingly, Faulkner was not very well known before being awarded the 1949 Noble Prize in Literature. Two of Faulkner’s books, A Fable and The Reivers won him the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Faulkner’s achievements include his novel, The Sound and the Fury being ranked number six on the Modern Library’s 100 best English-language novels of the 20th-century list. Faulkner’s most outspoken moral evaluation of the relationship and the problems between Negroes and whites is to be found in Intruder In the Dust. The novel focuses on Lucas Beauchamp, a black farmer accused of murdering a white man. He is exonerated 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." Listen online to free English audiobook "Intruder in the Dust” on our website to experience William Faulkner's novel.
