- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Frank Yerby
- Contributor to Resource:
- Digital Library of Georgia
Courtesy of The Augusta News-Review - Publisher:
- The Augusta News-Review
- Date of Original:
- 1977
- Subject:
- African American authors
African American novelists
College teachers--United States
African American college teachers
Authors, American
Novelists, American
Yerby, Frank, 1916-1991 - Location:
- United States, 39.76, -98.5
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Augusta native Frank Yerby came to be known as "king of the costume novel" for his successful works of historical fiction.
Photograph of author Frank Yerby. Yerby was the first African American to write a best-selling novel 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. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/frank-yerby-1916-1991/frank-yerby_002/
- Digital Object URL:
- https://gahistoricnewspapers.galileo.usg.edu/lccn/sn88054027/1977-05-05/ed-1/seq-1/#sort=relevance&index=1&rows=12&proxtext=Frank+Yerby&sequence=0&words=Frank+FRANK+Yerby+YERBY&page=1
- Original Collection:
- Georgia Historic Newspapers
- Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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