William J. Weatherby
William J. Weatherby (1930–1992) was a British–American author and journalist who was actively involved in the American Civil rights movement. His works span numerous literary genres, including mystery, romance, historical fiction, biography, and journalism. Life and career Born in a suburb of Manchester, England in 1930, Weatherby first travelled to the United States in the late 1950s as an entertainment correspondent and feature writer for The Guardian before being assigned to report on the Civil Rights Movement in the early 1960s. While covering the movement, he began a relationship with an African American man named Christine, and the couple travelled together throughout Louisiana, Georgia, and New York. His experience covering the movement, along with his relationship with Christine, inspired the novel ''Love in the Shadows'' (1965), though when fictionalizing his experiences, Weatherby wrote Christine as a woman for the story to be published. Throughout the 1960s, W ...
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