Knock on Any Door

Name: Knock on Any Door
Author: Willard Motley

by Willard Motley

Novel of a poor boy's ascent into crime, corruption, and moral ruin in urban America

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Willard Motley

Willard Motley was an African American naturalist in the Dreiser tradition whose novel Knock on Any Door became a sensation and the basis for a film. His work focused on white ethnic urban poverty, unusual for a Black American author.

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