Fiction. African American Studies. A detective story, a black comedy, a tragedy, Lord of Dark Places, thirty-five years out of print, is a dissertation on the histories and stereotypes that conspire to man and to unman Black Americans by a Faulkner Award-winning writer.
"Bennett is a New York Genet."—New Statesman
Hal Bennettt was born in 1930 and attended Mexicao City College where he was a fellow of the Centro Mexicano de Escritores. He was the winner of a Faulkner Award and in the mid 1960s was named the most promising writer of the year by Playboy Magazine. Bennett, an African-American writer, is known for his irreverance, iconoclasm and his sense of the absurd.