Gavin Stevens
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Character Key:
Display Name:
Gavin Stevens
Sort Name:
Stevens, Gavin
Race:
White
Gender:
Male
Class:
Upper Class
Rank:
Major
Vitality:
Alive
Family:
Stevens
Family (new):
Occupation:
Administrative
Specific Job:
County Attorney
First Mentioned:
Other Texts:
Biography:
Gavin Stevens "was a Harvard graduate: a loose-jointed man with a mop of untidy iron-gray hair, who could discuss Einstein with college professors and who spent whole afternoons among the squatting men against the walls of country stores, talking to them in their idiom. He called these his vacations" (17). One of Faulkner's favorite characters, he plays the role of detective in all six Knight's Gambit stories. In most of them, as in "Smoke," he is the county attorney - and an investigator who rivals Sherlock Holmes in conjecturing, inducting and deducing - who cannot help but enjoy Granby Dodge's growing discomfiture during the hearing into Judge Dukinfield's murder.
Individual or Group:
Individual
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