A Different Drummer (novel)
1962 debut novel by William Melville Kelley / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A Different Drummer is the 1962 debut novel of William Melvin Kelley. It won the John Hay Whitney Foundation Award and Rosenthal Foundation Award of the National Institute of Arts and Letters.[1] The title references Henry David Thoreau's lines: "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer..."[2][3]