John Oliver Killens (January 14,1916--October 27,1987), a black American fiction writer, was born in Macon, Georgia, to Charles Myles, Sr., and Willie Lee Killens.
John Oliver Killens (January 14,1916--October 27,1987), was a black American fiction writer whose novels of African American life received two Pulitzer Prize nominations. Killens was born in Macon, Georgia, to Charles Myles, Sr., and Willie Lee Killens.