Willard Motley
Willard Francis Motley (July 14, 1909 in Chicago, Illinois – March 4, 1965 in Mexico City) was an African-American writer. He published a column in the Chicago Defender under the pen-name "Bud Biliken." Motley also worked as a free-lance writer, and later founded and published the Hull House Magazine and worked in the Federal Writers Project. His first and best known novel was Knock on Any Door (1947).
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