Kyle Onstott

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Kyle Onstott (January 12, 1887 in Duquoin, Illinois – June 01, 1966)[1] was an American novelist, best-remembered for his best-selling novel Mandingo (1957), which deals with slavery on an Alabama plantation with the fictional name of Falconhurst in the 1830s. The book was made into a film of the same name, which was released in 1975.

Onstott was originally a dog breeder and judge in regional dog shows, living in California with his widowed mother in the early 1900s. Having collaborated with his adopted son on a book about dog breeding, he decided to write a book that would make him rich. "Utilizing his son's anthropology research on West Africa, he handwrote Mandingo and his son served as editor. Denlinger's, a small Virginia publisher, released it and it became a national sensation."[2] A sequel and a series of other novels followed, mostly written with Lance Horner.

Works

  • The New Art of Breeding Better Dogs (with Philip Onstott)
  • Mandingo
  • The Black Sun
  • Child of the Sun
  • Falconhurst Fancy
  • Flight to Falconhurst
  • Master of Falconhurst
  • The Tattooed Rood
  • Drum
  • Strange Harvest (with Ashley Carter)

References

  1. ↑ Kyle Onstott profile, Good Reads.
  2. ↑ Article by Rudy Maxa, "The Master of Mandingo", The Washington Post, July 13, 1975.

Contemporary Authors: Biography - Onstott, Kyle (1887–1966).


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