William Lawrence "Lonnie" Coleman (1920–1982) was an American novelist and playwright best known for writing the Beulah Land trilogy.
[1] He died from cancer in Candler General Hospital[2] on August 13, 1982, in Savannah, Georgia, at age 62.
[3] Coleman's book Beulah Land was a New York Times Best Seller in 1974 and earned a record-breaking $800,000 paperback rights contract.
Jolly's Progress starred Eartha Kitt and Wendell Corey and ran for a week in December 1959.
An unproduced play, Next of Kin, was adapted as the 1958 film Hot Spell which starred Shirley Booth and Anthony Quinn.