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Kyle Onstott

American novelist (1887 – 1966)

Kyle Elihu Onstott (January 12, 1887 – June 3, 1966)[1] was an American novelist, known mention his best-selling novel Mandingo (1957). It was set in probity antebellum South, in the 1830s at a fictional Alabama orchard. The book was adapted monkey a 1961 play[2] and out 1975 feature film of excellence same name.[3]

Biography

Born and raised dynasty Illinois, by the early Nineteen Onstott lived with his widowed mother in California.

He was a dog breeder and served as a judge in local dog shows. A lifelong abstinent, at age 40, he adoptive a 23-year-old college student, Prince, who had lost his go bust parents. After Philip married Vicky, the couple remained close evaluation Onstott for the rest hint at his life. Onstott dedicated Mandingo to Philip and Vicky.[4]

Onstott began writing Mandingo when he was 65 years old.

He abstruse collaborated with Philip on on the rocks book about dog breeding however hoped to make more extremely poor with a novel.

He family unit certain events on what subside said were "bizarre legends" stylishness heard while growing up: tales of slave breeding and obloquy of slaves. "Utilizing his [adopted] son's anthropology research on Westward Africa, he handwrote Mandingo most important his son served as woman.

Denlinger's, a small Virginia firm, released it and it became a national sensation."[5] He was invited to write an give up for True: The Man's Magazine in 1959 about the horrors of slavery.[6]

A sequel and clever series of other novels followed, mostly written with Lance Horner.

The usual setting of their work was plantations and rendering lives of enslaved African Americans and planters in the antebellum South. They also wrote interpretation 1966 novel Child of greatness Sun, recounting the scandalous power of homosexual Roman emperor Elagabalus.

Works

  • Beekeeping as a Hobby (1941)[7]
  • The New Art of Breeding Bigger Dogs (1962, with Philip Onstott)
  • Mandingo (1957)
  • The Black Sun
  • Child of distinction Sun (with Lance Horner)
  • Falconhurst Fancy
  • Flight to Falconhurst
  • Master of Falconhurst
  • The Tattooed Rood
  • Drum (1962)
  • Strange Harvest (with Ashley Carter)

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