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William Demby (December 25, 1922 – May 23, 2013) was an African-American writer, whose works include Beetlecreek (1950), The Catacombs (1965), Love Story Black (1978) and King Comus (published posthumously in November 2017).
Jun 1, 2013 · William Demby, whose novels, written while he was an expatriate in Italy, challenged literary conventions and expectations of what a black writer should write about, died on May 23 at his home...
Nov 2, 2017 · Demby spent twenty years in Rome, from 1947 to 1967, working as a journalist, screenwriter, and English translator of scripts for major directors of the Italian cinema, including Roberto Rossellini, Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti, and Michelangelo Antonioni.
Jun 1, 2013 · A profile of the late African-American writer William Demby, who lived in Italy for most of his life and wrote experimental novels that defied racial and literary categories. Learn about his career, his influences, and his award-winning work.
Off a dirt road in the backwoods of Tuscany, living in a wonderfully decadent villa inherited by his Italian wife, William Demby is making the final edit of his literary mas-terpiece, King Comus.
William Demby. 1922— Author. While he has never quite achieved the stature of such contemporaries as Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison, William Demby is without question one of the most important African American authors of the twentieth century.
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Dec 25, 2015 · December 25, 2015. “Witty, intelligent and worldly,” Charles Baxter has observed, “William Demby (1922-2013) may be the greatest neglected African-American writer of the 20th century.” Such a strong judgment is based on three novels, each brilliant and unique.
