Frank Yerby\'s first novel, The Foxes of Harrow, established him as a writer and launched a forty-nine-year career in which he published thirty-three novels.
Yet, few know that Yerby began his writing career with the publication of a Short story in his school newspaper in 1936, the fir.
He garnered legions of loyal fans of his writing.
He also became the first African American writer to sell more than a million copies of his work and to have a book adapted into a movie by a Hollywood studio.
Frank Yerby\'s first novel, The Foxes of Harrow, established him as a writer and launched a forty-nine-year career in which he published thirty-three novels