They lived in Barbados for eleven years with their two children, Bill and Noelle. Family and personal life Īttaway was married in 1962 to a woman named Frances Settele. (1936) from the University of Illinois and having published "The Tale of the Blackamoor" in Challenge, he traveled around the US before settling into New York City. During these years he worked as a salesman, a labor organizer, and a seaman, and began to collect material for his later works.Īfter getting his B.A. Even though he was doing well at college, upon his father's death Attaway dropped out and became a traveling worker for two years. Īfter graduating from high school, Attaway enrolled at the University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign. He even enjoyed writing so much that he wrote for his sister Ruth's amateur dramatic groups. Once he learned that Hughes was a black poet, Attaway decided to start applying himself to his school work. In Chicago, Attaway showed little interest in school until he was assigned a poem written by Langston Hughes. When Attaway was six, he moved with his family to Chicago, Illinois, as part of the Great Migration, to escape the segregated South. Attaway, a physician and founder of the National Negro Insurance Association, and Florence Parry Attaway, a school teacher. William Alexander Attaway (Novem– June 17, 1986) was an African-American novelist, short story writer, essayist, songwriter, playwright, and screenwriter.Īttaway was born on November 19, 1911, in Greenville, Mississippi, the son of W.
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