Yerby taught briefly at Florida A&M University and at Southern University in Baton Rouge.įrank Yerby rose to fame as a writer of popular fiction tinged with a distinctive southern flavor. In 1939, Yerby entered the University of Chicago to work toward his doctorate but later left the university. Thereafter, Yerby enrolled in Fisk University where he received his Master's degree in 1938. He graduated from Haines Normal Institute in Augusta and graduated from Paine College in 1937.
That same year he also became the first African-American t Born in Augusta, Georgia to Rufus Garvin Yerby, an African American, and Wilhelmina Smythe, who was caucasian.
In 1946 he became the first African-American to publish a best-seller with The Foxes of Harrow. Frank Yerby rose to fame as a writer of popular fiction tinged with a distinctive southern flavor. Yerby taught briefly at Florida A&M University and at Southern University in Baton Rouge.
Born in Augusta, Georgia to Rufus Garvin Yerby, an African American, and Wilhelmina Smythe, who was caucasian.
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