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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 in...
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. His novels address issues of race and national identity with an unsurpassed power and command of ...
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William Demby was born on 25 December 1922 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for Commando (1962), The Eye of the Needle (1963) and L'occhio selvaggio (1967). He was married to Lucia Drudi Demby. He died on 23 May 2013 in Sag Harbor, New York, USA.
