Frank Garvin Yerby was born in Augusta, Georgia, on September 5th, 1916, the son of a black hotel doorman, Rufus Garvin Yerby and his white wife, Wilhelmina. He attended private elementary and high school, the Haines Institute, predominately black, and received a Bachelor of Arts in English from Paine College. He received a Master of Arts in ...
The novelist hasn't any right to inflict on the public his private ideas on politics, race, or religion.
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I was fat, shy, would rather read than eat.... Boyhood was dull.
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I attend the Catholic church on the rare occasions that I go to church, but I am a member of no specific sect, although I consider myself a Christian in a vague sort of way. I belong to no political party. I vote for the man and the issue, regardless of party lines.
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With wife Flora Helen Claire Williams, he had four children: Jacques Loring, Nikki Ethlyn, Faune Ellena, and Jan Keith.
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African-American best-selling author of action-filled romantic period fiction. Yerby's short story "Health Card" won a special O. Henry Memorial Award for a first published short story in 1944. His first novel, The Foxes of Harrow, was incredibly successful; published in 1946, by the end of the year it had sold over a million copies. He went on to publish 31 more novels. In the latter half of his life, Yerby lived in France and then in Spain.
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