(1916-1991)
Frank Yerby was born September 5, 1916, in Augusta, Georgia. He took a masters degree in English from Fisk University in 1938. In 1944 he won the O. Henry Award for his short story "Health Card"; and in 1946 he completed his very successful first novel, The Foxes of Harrow. From 1955 until his death on November 29, 1991, he lived in self-imposed exile in Madrid because of discrimination in the United States.
He published over thirty novels and sold more than fifty-five million copies in eighty-two countries and in twenty-three languages. The Foxes of Harrow, The Golden Hawk, and The Saracen Blade became successful movies.
Representative novels:
Jarrett's Jade, Dial Press, 1959
The Golden Haw, Dial Press, 1948
The Treasure of Pleasant Valley, Dial Press 1955
Western, Doubleday August 1982
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