← William DembyBeetlecreekby William DembyNovel of friendship between a white boy and black man confronting prejudice in small-town AmericaFind on Amazon↗About the authorWilliam DembyWilliam Demby was an experimental African American novelist whose Beetlecreek explored racial fear and social entrapment in a small West Virginia town. His later work Catacombs was a formally daring meditation on Black identity in the 1960s.More by William DembyThe CatacombsExperimental novel exploring myth, history, and identity through fragmented narrative structure→Love Story Black→Blueboy→The Disorganized Man→
