But he is most famous for a novel that chronicles the Bundren family's attempt to bury their matriarch in Jefferson and one that portrays the fall of the Compson family through the eyes of the suicidal Quentin and the mentally challenged Benjy.
One novel by this author that contains elements of a murder mystery, sees the African-American Lucas Beauchamp accused of murdering local white man, Vinson Gowrie. Besides writing Intruder in the Dust, he also introduced Horace Benbow and Temple Drake in Sanctuary and the enigmatic Joe Christmas in Light in August. But he is most famous for a novel that chronicles the Bundren family's attempt to bury their matriarch in Jefferson and one that portrays the fall of the Compson family through the eyes of the suicidal Quentin and the mentally challenged Benjy. FTP, this is what Southern writer of As I Lay Dying and The Sound and the Fury?
One novel by this author that contains elements of a murder mystery, sees the African-American Lucas Beauchamp accused of murdering local white man, Vinson Gowrie.
William Faulkner