Kyle Elihu Onstott (January 12, 1887 – June 3, 1966)[1] was an American novelist, known for his best-selling novel Mandingo (1957).
[3] Born and raised in Illinois, by the early 1900s Onstott lived with his widowed mother in California.
After Philip married Vicky, the couple remained close to Onstott for the rest of his life.
The usual setting of their work was plantations and the lives of enslaved African Americans and planters in the antebellum South.
They also wrote the 1966 novel Child of the Sun, recounting the scandalous reign of homosexual Roman emperor Elagabalus.