On December 25th 1922 William Demby (Dec 25, 1922 - May 23, 2013) Writer, was born. He wrote for the Army publication ‘Stars and Stripes’ while serving in North Africa during WWII. After the war he graduated from Fisk University and moved to Rome where he worked for Italian film directors, including Federico Fellini, translating Italian screenplays and films into English. He was assistant director of dialogue on Roberto Rossellini's film ‘Europa 51’ starring Ingrid Bergman. He also wrote for various American magazines, among them ‘The Reporter’. In Italy, he wrote his 1st existentialist, novel, ‘Beetlecreek’ (1950), and then his 2nd, more experimental novel, ‘The Catacombs’ (1965). He began teaching English in 1969 at the College of Staten Island (CUNY) and published his 3rd novel, ‘Love Story Black’, in 1978.
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