Frank Yerby
Novelist, Author
1916 – 1991
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Who was Frank Yerby?
Frank Garvin Yerby was an African-American historical novelist. He is best known as the first African-American writer to become a millionaire from his pen, and to have a book purchased by a Hollywood studio for a film adaptation.
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