Willard Francis Motley (July 14, 1909 – March 4, 1965) was an American writer. Motley published a column in the African-American oriented Chicago Defender newspaper under the pen-name Bud Billiken. He also worked as a freelance writer, and later founded and published the Hull House Magazine and worked in the Federal Writers Project. Motley's first and best known novel was Knock on Any Door, which was made into a movie by the same name (1947). Description above from the Wikipedia article Willard Motley, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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1909-07-14
Chicago, Illinois, USA
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