William Faulkner

Biography

William Faulkner (1897-1962) was the author of more than twenty novels and collections of short stories. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949, and two of his later novels, A Fable (1954) and The Reivers (1962) won the Pulitzer Prize. “Lucas Beauchamp,” which appeared in the Summer 1999 issue of VQR, is an unpublished story following the characters of his 1948 novel Intruder in the Dust.

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FICTION / Summer 1999

Lucas Beauchamp

By William Faulkner

He knew Lucas Beauchamp—as well as any white person knew him. Better than any maybe unless it was Carothers Edmonds on whose place Lucas lived seventeen miles from town, because he had eaten a meal in Lucas’s house. It was in the early...