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Frank Garvin Yerby ( September 5, 1916 - November 29, 1991) was an African American historical novelist. His best known work is The Man from Dahomey ( 1971). Yerby left the United States in 1955 in protest against racial discrimination. Frank Yerby died in Madrid, Spain and was interred there in the Cementerio de la Almudena.
Books by Frank Yerby
- The Foxes of Harrow ( 1946)
- Pride's Castle ( 1949)
- Fair Oaks ( 1957)
- Griffin's Way ( 1962See also 1961 in literature, other events of 1962, 1963 in literature, list of years in literature. Events Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov is published. New Books Apples of Gold Jo Petty The Changeling Thomas Middleton Dearly Beloved Anne Morrow Lindbergh T)
- Speak Now ( 1969See also 1968 in literature, other events of 1969, 1970 in literature, list of years in literature. Events The first Booker Prize is awarded; Penelope Ashe, author of bestselling novel, Naked Came the Stranger is found to be several people who each took a)
- The Dahomean ( 1971, later published as The Man from Dahomey)
- Devilseed ( 1984See also 1983 in literature, other events of 1984, 1985 in literature, list of years in literature. Events The book Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell is read by many people, as that year has come. Of Mice and Men the novel by John Steinbeck, was remov)
- McKenzie's Hundred ( 1985See also 1984 in literature, other events of 1985, 1986 in literature, list of years in literature. Events New Books The Accidental Tourist Anne Tyler The Adult Children of Alcoholics Syndrome Wayne Kritsberg At the Going Down of the Sun Elizabeth Darrell)
Yerby, Frank Garvin
Yerby, Frank Garvin
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