Provided by Wikipedia 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).
![Demby in 1956 <br>Photo by [[Carl Van Vechten]]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/59/Portrait_of_William_Demby_LCCN2004662792.jpg)