Frank Yerby
Frank Garvin Yerby ( born September 5, 1916 in Augusta, Georgia, † November 29, 1991 in Madrid, Spain) was an American author of historical novels.
Life
Yerby was the first African American in his novel The Foxes of Harrow in 1946 published a bestseller. In the same year he sold, as well as the first African-American to the rights of the film adaptation of the Hollywood studio 20th Century Fox. Finally, the film was honored with an Oscar nomination for the same film with Rex Harrison and Maureen O'Hara.
In all, he wrote 33 novels. Yerby kept his " Afroamerikanertum " as an author unimportant.
Yerby left the U.S. in 1955 in protest against racial discrimination, visited France and lived until his death in Madrid. His second wife was Spanish. Yerby died in 1991 in Madrid from heart failure and was buried there.