Kyle Onstott

Kyle Elihu Onstott
BornKyle Elihu Onstott
(1887-01-12)January 12, 1887
Du Quoin, Illinois, U.S.
DiedJune 1, 1966(1966-06-01) (aged 79)
U.S.
OccupationNovelist
GenreFiction
Notable workMandingo

Kyle Elihu Onstott (January 12, 1887 – June 3, 1966) was an American novelist, known for his best-selling novel Mandingo (1957). It was set in the antebellum South, in the 1830s at a fictional Alabama plantation. The book was adapted as a 1961 play and a 1975 feature film of the same name.