Novelist ALBERT FRENCH. He found inspiration for his first novel, "Billy" (Viking), in the true story of an 11-yr-old getting the electric chair in the 1930's. "Billy," is the story of the "legal lynching" of a ten year old boy in the deep south who inadvertantly kills a white girl. FRENCH writes in "Delta" dialect, epitomizing racial hatred in America
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