Yerby, Frank G(arvin) (Vol. 1) | Yerby, Frank G(arvin) 1916–
Yerby, Frank G(arvin) 1916–
Black American novelist, best known for The Foxes of Harrow. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 11-12.)
Frank Yerby is a very successful and popular writer. He is rather distinctive because he has consistently provoked controversy as to his art. Adverse criticism which began after his first novel, The Foxes of Harrow (1946), in the New York Times Book Review, has failed to affect Yerby's popularity. His works for the most part are historical novels. In writing these works, Yerby has consistently drawn characters from all ethnic groups in the American scene…. In the historical novel few themes appear because such fiction gives merely characterizations against the background of history. Of course, there are issues which may very well have challenged the author for interpretation, but Yerby concentrates upon the pleasure principle of literature. He seeks to entertain by giving a recreation...
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