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Don Tracy (1905–1976)

Author of Criss Cross [1949 film]

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About the Author

Includes the name: Don Tracy

Also includes: Roger Fuller (1)

Disambiguation Notice:

Don Tracy used his Roger Fuller pseudonym for TV and movie tie-in novels and Peyton Place sequels.

Series

Works by Don Tracy

Criss Cross [1949 film] (1949) — Novel — 39 copies
Criss-Cross (1950) 17 copies
Son of Flubber (1963) 14 copies
How Sleeps the Beast (1992) 14 copies
The Hated One (1963) 13 copies
Chesapeake Cavalier (1949) 11 copies
Roanoke Renegade (1956) 5 copies
Naked She Died (1962) 5 copies
Again Peyton Place (1967) 5 copies
Round Trip 5 copies
Pleasures of Peyton Place (1968) 4 copies
Last Year's Snow (1990) 4 copies
Deadly to bed (1960) 3 copies
Fun and Deadly Games (1968) 3 copies
Pot of Trouble (1971) 3 copies
Look Down on Her Dying (1968) 3 copies
The Big Blackout (1960) 3 copies
Carolina Corsair (1957) 3 copies
La Vape (1961) 2 copies
Flash ! (1995) 2 copies
Cherokee 2 copies
The cheat 1 copy
The Facts of Life (1960) 1 copy
The Timeless Serpent (1965) 1 copy
Ordeal 1 copy
Death Calling Collect (1976) 1 copy
The amber fire (1954) 1 copy
The Big X (1976) 1 copy
High Wide Ransom (1975) 1 copy

Associated Works

The bear went over the mountain (1964) — Contributor — 6 copies
Saturday Evening Post Stories 1958 (1959) — Contributor — 5 copies
The Saturday Evening Post Stories 1949 — Contributor — 2 copies

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Common Knowledge

Legal name
Tracy, Donald Fiske
Other names
Fuller, Roger
Birthdate
1905
Date of death
1976
Gender
male
Birthplace
New Britain, Connecticut, USA
Place of death
Clearwater, Florida, USA
Disambiguation notice
Don Tracy used his Roger Fuller pseudonym for TV and movie tie-in novels and Peyton Place sequels.

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How Sleeps the Beast is a mixed bag, to put it mildly. It's the story of an ugly, ugly lynching in a rural Maryland town, taken part in by a very large, rabid, hate-filled mob, with the lynching itself, far from a "simple" hanging, and exceedingly cruel and brutal affair. All this is true to the actual events of many, many lynchings, in which Blacks were not just hung, but disemboweled and sometimes burned alive. So as far as that goes, while the book is hard to read, it's a valuable historical testimony. However, three major flaws are also evident. The first is that the Blacks of this town are often (not always) portrayed as the simplistic, child-like folk of the worst racist tropes. Second, and even worse, is that the victim, in the event, is actually guilty of the crime he's accused of, and again via an even more vile racist stereotype, having gotten drunk and in his inebriated haze decided to go off in search of a white woman. Any white woman. When, in reality, Blacks in the Jim Crow South got lynched for protesting about being cheated out of payment for the crops they'd grown, or making their houses look too attractive, or having money in the bank: anything that made them appear to be rising "above their station." So suggesting that a Black person had to be guilty of an actual crime in order to be lynched in fact borders on doing more harm than good in terms of the message taken away by the reader, no matter how deprived the perpetrators of the lynching are portrayed as being. The third, and least objectionable in the long run, flaw is that the characters are essentially all cardboard cutouts, put in place to espouse this point of view or that one, whether evil or well intentioned, strong or weak, cynical or idealistic.

So, despite the book being intriguing at the outset, and a good fictional portrayal of the horrors of racial hatred and the depravity of lynch mobs, in the end it falls short for me of being anything ultimately but an historical curiosity.
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Works
59
Also by
4
Members
248
Popularity
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Rating
½ 3.4
Reviews
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ISBNs
37
Languages
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