Frank Yerby
Frank Yerby was a phenomenally successful Black American novelist who wrote historical romances set in the antebellum South, disguising social critique within popular entertainment. He was one of the bestselling American novelists of the mid-century.
Works
- The Foxes of HarrowHistorical novel of antebellum Louisiana plantation life, passion, and romantic adventure
- The VixensHistorical adventure novel set during the Spanish colonial period in the Caribbean
- A Woman Called FancyHistorical novel of a woman in the post-Civil War South seeking love and redemption
- The Golden HawkSwashbuckling adventure novel of pirates and romance in the eighteenth-century Caribbean
- FloodtideHistorical novel of merchant ships, adventure, and romance in the American frontier era