 White Dog , released in France as Chien Blanc , is a fictional autobiographical novel written by Romain Gary . Originally published as a short story in Life in 1970 ( 9 October ) , the full novel was published in 1970 in French in France by Éditions Gallimard . Gary 's English version of the novel was published in North America in the same year by New American Library . The novel provides a fictionalized account of Gary and his wife 's experiences in the 1960s with a stray Alabama police dog trained to attack black people on sight , and their attempts to have the dog reprogrammed . 
 White Dog , released in France as Chien Blanc , <a href='drop_aux' title='1'><mark>is</mark></a>a fictional autobiographical novel written by Romain Gary . Originally published as a short story in Life in 1970 ( 9 October ) , the full novel was published in 1970 in French in France by Éditions Gallimard . Gary <a href='null_genetive' title='2'><mark>'s</mark></a>English version of the novel was published in North America in the same year by New American Library . The novel <a href='uninflect' title='3'><mark>provides</mark></a> a fictionalized account of Gary and his wife <a href='null_genetive' title='4'><mark>'s</mark></a>experiences in the 1960s with a stray Alabama police dog trained to attack black people on sight , and their attempts to have the dog reprogrammed . 
White Dog , released in France as Chien Blanc , a fictional autobiographical novel written by Romain Gary . Originally published as a short story in Life in 1970 ( 9 October ) , the full novel was published in 1970 in French in France by Éditions Gallimard . Gary  English version of da novel was published in North America in the same year by New American Library . Tdanovel provide a fictionalized account of Gary and his wife  experiences in the 1960s with a stray Alabama police dog trained to attack black niggas on sight , and their attempts to have the dog reprogrammed .