@booklet {9536, title = {A Different Drummer}, year = {1962}, note = {

Rpt. New York: Anchor Books, 1989 with a \“Foreword\” by David Bradley (xi-xxxii); and London: riverrun, 2018, with a \“Foreword: \‘The Lost Giant of American Literature\’\” by Kathryn Schulz (ix-xxxiv), which was originally published in The New Yorker\ 93.36 (January 29, 2018): 26-31 (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/01/29/the-lost-giant-of-american-literature); and \“A Biography of William Melvin Kelley\” by Jessica Kelley (his daughter) (295-302).

}, month = {1962}, publisher = {Doubleday}, address = {Garden City, NY}, abstract = {

The novel begins in the South that is a dystopia for all African Americans. One man revolts, salts his fields, kills his livestock, burns his house down, and leaves. All the other African Americans in the town follow his example.\ 

}, keywords = {African American author, Male author}, author = {William Melvin Kelley (1937-2017)} }