KELLEY, William Melvin

KELLEY, William Melvin
(1937-)
   US writer whose celebrated short novel A Different Drummer (1959) is a borderline-sf fable telling of Black history in an imaginary southern state of the USA, and ending with a mass emigration of all Blacks from the state in 1957.
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   Other works: Dem (1967); Dunsford Travels Everywhere (1970).
   See also: POLITICS.

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