Yerby, Frank [Garvin]
Yerby, Frank [Garvin]( 1916–91),Georgiaborn African-American author, after receiving an M.A. from Fisk (1938) taught briefly at Southern universities but concentrated on the writing of historical romances after the great success of his The Foxes of Harrow (1946), set in the pre-Civil War South. He continued to write such popular fiction, some in part concerned with black people. His novels include A Woman Called Fancy (1951); The Garfield Honor (1961); An Odor of Sanctity (1965); Goat Song: A Novel of Ancient Greece (1967); Judas, My Brother (1968); A Darkness at Ingraham's Crest (1979); Western: A Saga of the Great Plains (1982); Devilseed (1984), dealing with a prostitute in gold rush San Francisco who becomes rich and proper; and his 32nd novel, McKenzie's Hundred (1985), concerning a questing woman in Virginia on the eve of the Civil War. From 1959 Yerby was an...
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