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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).
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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 · William Demby (1922-2013) The novelist William Edward Demby Jr. was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Christmas day, 1922, to William and Gertrude Demby. He was raised in a family of seven children in the Fairywood district of Pittsburgh’s West Side.
Jun 1, 2013 · But instead of portraying white society’s injustices to blacks, as Richard Wright, Chester Himes and many other black writers did, Demby created a story about a reclusive outcast white man who is victimized by the nearby black town of Beetlecreek, West Virginia.
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. His novels address issues of race and national identity with an unsurpassed power and command of ...
Dec 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.
