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About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until it is almost a sea and the water is yellow with the mud of half a continent. Where the sun strikes it, it is golden.


Frank Yerby


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That same year he also became the first African American to have a book purchased for screen adaptation by a Hollywood studio when 20th Century Fox optioned Foxes. "Subversive Romanticism Haitian Specters in Yerby’s The Golden Hawk" (UnpubliFrank Yerbyd manuscript of conference paper) http://www. Novelist
Yerby was originally noted for writing romance novels set in the Antebellum South.

Frank Garvin Yerby ((1916-09-05)September 5 1916 – November 29 1991(1991-11-29)) 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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