Patterson, Orlando, 1940- (Personal Name)

His The children of Sisyphus, 1964.

His Slavery as social death, 1982: CIP t.p. (Orlando Patterson)

Info. from 678 field, Dec. 30, 2012 (Ph.D.)

African American National Biography, accessed February 28, 2015, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Patterson, Orlando; educator, sociologist, fiction writer; born 05 June 1940 near Frome, Westmoreland, Jamaica; BS in Economics at the University College of the West Indies (1962); Ph.D. in sociology at the London School of Economics (LSE); published dissertation in The Sociology of Slavery: An Analysis of the Origins, Development, and Structure of Negro Slave Society in Jamaica, 1655-1838 (1967); taught sociology at the University of the West Indies, Mona (UWI); published three novels, Children of Sisyphus, a Jamaican classic, An Absence of Ruins, a campus novel, and, Die the Long Day, a historical fiction (1964, 1967, 1972); published trilogy known as,The Ordeal of Integration: Progress and Resentment in America's 'Racial' Crisis, followed by Rituals of Blood: Consequences of Slavery in Two American Centuries (1997, 1998); honors include, the Ralph Bunche Award of the American Political Science Association and the Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award of the American Sociological Association)