Frank yerby bio

Frank Yerby rose to fame as a writer of popular fiction tinged with a distinctive southern flavor. He was the first African American to write a series of best-selling novels and to have a book purchased by a Hollywood studio for a film adaptation. During his prolific career, Yerby wrote thirty-three novels and sold more than fifty-five million hardback and paperback books worldwide.

Frank Garvin Yerby was born in Augusta on September 5, , to Wilhemenia and Rufus Yerby. His mother was Scots-Irish and his father African American. He graduated from Haines Institute () and Paine College (), both located in Augusta. Yerby continued his education at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee, where he received an M.A. degree in , and at the University of Chicago, where he began studies toward a doctorate in For a brief period, Yerby worked as an instructor of English at Florida A&M College (later Florida A&M University) and at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louis

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Frank Yerby

Biography of Frank Yerby

Frank Garvin Yerby (September 5, – November 29, ) was a writer, best known for his historical novel The Foxes of Harrow, which was the first novel written by an African-American to become a best seller.

Frank Yerby was born in Augusta, Georgia, the second of four children. His father a hotel doorman, was part African-American, part Seminole; his mother was Scots-Irish. Yerby attended Augusta’s Haines Institute, a private school for African Americans. In , he graduated from Paine College with a B.A. in English and earned his M.A. from Fisk University in In , he began courses for his doctorate in education at the University of Chicago but left school to teach.

Yerby worked as an instructor of English at Florida A&M College (later University) and at Southern University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He later migrated north, to Dearborn, Michigan, where he worked as a technician at Ford Motor Company, and soon thereafter to Jamai

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Frank Yerby

Frank Garvin Yerby (5 de setembro de - 29 de novembro de ) foi um escritor americano, mais conhecido por seu romance histórico de , The Foxes of Harrow.^[1][2]

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Yerby nasceu em Augusta, Geórgia, em 5 de setembro de , o segundo de quatro filhos de Rufus Garvin Yerby (–), porteiro de hotel, e Wilhelmina Ethel Yerby (nascida Smythe) (–), professora.^[3] A ascendência de Yerby era negra, branca e nativa americana. Yerby mais tarde se referiria a si mesmo como "um jovem cuja lista de ancestrais parecia uma mini-Nações Unidas".^[4][5] Um dos irmãos de Yerby era Alonzo Yerby, reitor associado da Harvard School of Public Health em Boston e comissário dos hospitais da cidade de Nova York.

Quando criança, Yerby frequentou o Augusta's Haines Institute, uma escola particular para afro-americanos fundada por Lucy Laney, na qual se formou em ^[2][3][6] Em , ele se formou no Paine College com bacharelado em inglês e obteve