Attaway, William

LC control no.	n 86035877
Descriptive conventions	rda
LC classification	PS3501.T59
Personal name heading	Attaway, William *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Other standard no.	Q8004662 http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q8004662
Biography/History note	William Attaway was an African American novelist and songwriter.
Associated country	United States
Birth date	1911-11-19
Death date	1986-06-17
Place of birth	Greenville (Miss.)
Place of death	Los Angeles (Calif.)
Affiliation	University of Illinois at Chicago Federal Writers' Project
Profession or occupation	Lyricists Actors Novelists Labor leaders
Found in	His Blood on the forge, 1987: CIP t.p. (William Attaway) LC data base, 3/18/87 (hdg.: Attaway, William) Wikipedia WWW site, July 1, 2009: William Attaway p. (William Attaway (Nov. 19, 1911-June 17, 1986) was an African American novelist, short story writer, essayist, songwriter, playwright, and screenwriter) African American National Biography, accessed December 2, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Attaway, William Alexander; songwriter, labor leader, actor, dramatist, fiction writer, essayist; born 19 November 1911 in Greenville, Mississippi, United States; graduated from the University of Illinois, Chicago; was involved in the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) (mid 1930s); performed in a 1939 traveling production of George S. Kaufman's You Can't Take It with You; his first novel was Let Me Breathe Thunder (1939); his most famous collaboration led to one of Belafonte's most popular hits, the "Banana Boat Song"; published Hear America Singing (1967); his work was featured in television series Wide Wide World and the Colgate Comedy Hour; was one of the writers for an hour long television special, One Hundred Years of Laughter (1964); died 17 June 1986 in Los Angeles, California, United States) Current Biography Illustrated database (H. W. Wilson), via WWW, October 16, 2017: Attaway, William Current Biography (Bio Ref Bank), ([Attaway's] father, he tells us, "was a doctor who did not want his children to grow up under the Southern caste system, so he packed up his family and followed the great migration North.'")