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Jun 1, 2013 · William Edward Demby Jr. was born on Dec. 25, 1922, in Pittsburgh. His father worked for a gas company and sang in a gospel group. His mother, whose lineage was partly Native American, was a ...
A Profile by Jeff Biggers. 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. The novel is the first work of fiction by the mercurial author (who also spends much of his time in Sag Harbor) in nearly ...
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Born William Demby on December 25, 1922, in Pittsburgh, PA; married Lucia Drudi (died 1995); married Barbara Harris, 2004; children (first marriage): James Gabriel. Education: Fisk University, BA, 1947. Military service: U.S. Army stationed in Italy and North Africa during World War II. Career: Independent writer and film translator, 1947–; College...
Novels
Beetlecreek,Rinehart, 1950. The Catacombs,Pantheon, 1965. Love Story Black,Reed, Cannon & Johnson, 1978
Periodicals
"The Geisha Girls of Ponto-cho," Harpers,December 1954, pp. 41-47. "They Surely Can't Stop Us Now," Reporter,April 5, 1956, pp. 18-21. "A Walk in Tuscany," Holiday,December 1957, pp. 141-145. "Blueblood Cats of Rome," Holiday,April 1960, pp. 203-206.
Books
Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 33: Afro-American Fiction Writers After 1955, Gale, 1984. Margolies, Edward, Native Sons: A Critical Study of Twentieth-Century Negro American Authors,Lippincott, 1968, pp. 173-188. Oxford Companion to African American Literature, Oxford UniversityPress, 1997, pp. 208-209.
Periodicals
Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction, Spring 1994, p. 181. Triquarterly,Spring 1969, pp. 127-141.
On-line
"William Demby," Annie Merner Pfeiffer Library(West Virginia Wesleyan College), www.wvwc.edu/lib/wv-authors/a_demby.htm (March 1, 2005). "William Demby," Biography Resource Center,www.galenet.com/servlet/BioRC (March 1, 2005).
William Demby was born on December 25, 1922, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he and his six siblings spent their early childhood. His father, William Demby, worked as a file clerk for Hopewell Natural Gas Company.
a deserted sea" ("William Demby" 127). Love Story Black, instead, received very scarce critical attention and faded almost entirely from any literary radar. From 1969 to 1987, Demby was English Professor at The City University of New York. After the death of Lucia Drudi in 1995, Demby recently remarried with Barbara and is now living in Sag ...
William Demby could be seen as just another--and perhaps lesser--writer caught under the spell of Rome, like Ralph Ellison and John Cheever.I think he's much more than that, and that his reputation deserves to be resuscitated.
THE ACHIEVEMENT OF WILLIAM DEMBY. THE ACHIEVEMENT OF WILLIAM DEMBY. By Jay R. Berry. Afro- American novelist William Demby has been too long by literary critics. Although he has managed. lish only three novels (. Beetlecreek , 1950; The. 1965; and Love Story Black , 1978) , each one contains ing and effective stylistic and structural devices that.
