death_date death_place birth_place influences notableworks name birth_date period genre image article_title birth_name occupation
17 june 1986 los angeles , california , united states greenville , mississippi united states langston hughes richard wright '' boat song '' blood on the forge '' , `` banana william attaway 19 november 1911 1935 -- 1967 proletarian literature william attaway.jpg william attaway
 william alexander attaway novelist , short story writer , essayist
william attaway

william alexander attaway -lrb- november 19 , 1911 -- june 17 , 1986 -rrb- was an african-american novelist , short story writer , essayist , songwriter , playwright , and screenwriter .
