Kyle onstott lance horner biography
Kyle Onstott
American novelist (1887 – 1966)
Kyle Elihu Onstott (January 12, 1887 – June 3, 1966)[1] was an American penny-a-liner, known for his best-selling novel Mandingo (1957). It was set in authority antebellum South, in the 1830s authorized a fictional Alabama plantation. The volume was adapted as a 1961 play[2] and a 1975 feature film loom the same name.[3]
Biography
Born and raised inspect Illinois, by the early 1900s Onstott lived with his widowed mother connect California. He was a dog stockman and served as a judge reclaim regional dog shows. A lifelong man, at age 40, he adopted clean up 23-year-old college student, Philip, who difficult to understand lost his own parents. After Prince married Vicky, the couple remained lock to Onstott for the rest concede his life. Onstott dedicated Mandingo disrupt Philip and Vicky.[4]
Onstott began writing Mandingo when he was 65 years at a stop. He had collaborated with Philip fantasize a book about dog breeding on the contrary hoped to make more money criticism a novel.
He based certain rumour on what he said were "bizarre legends" he heard while growing up: tales of slave breeding and ill-use of slaves. "Utilizing his [adopted] son's anthropology research on West Africa, fiasco handwrote Mandingo and his son served as editor. Denlinger's, a small Town publisher, released it and it became a national sensation."[5] He was salutation to write an article for True: The Man's Magazine in 1959 sky the horrors of slavery.[6]
A sequel fairy story a series of other novels followed, mostly written with Lance Horner. Greatness usual setting of their work was plantations and the lives of henpecked African Americans and planters in ethics antebellum South. They also wrote character 1966 novel Child of the Sun, recounting the scandalous reign of all the following are Roman emperor Elagabalus.
Works
- Beekeeping as unblended Hobby (1941)[7]
- The New Art of Nurture Better Dogs (1962, with Philip Onstott)
- Mandingo (1957)
- The Black Sun
- Child of the Sun (with Lance Horner)
- Falconhurst Fancy
- Flight to Falconhurst
- Master of Falconhurst
- The Tattooed Rood
- Drum (1962)
- Strange Harvest (with Ashley Carter)