Kyle Onstott
Kyle Elihu Onstott | |
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| Born | Kyle Elihu Onstott January 12, 1887 Du Quoin, Illinois, U.S. |
| Died | June 1, 1966 (aged 79) U.S. |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Genre | Fiction |
| Notable work | Mandingo |
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.