Novelist Frank Yerby

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Frank Yerby

Living place: Georgia

Birthday: 5-9-1916

Population of US 1916: 101,961,000

Global rank: #90641

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Who is Novelist Frank Yerby?
An African-American author of historical fiction, he is best known for works such as The Foxes of Harrow (1946), The Vixens (1947), and The Golden Hawk (1948). His many other works include Gillian Chung (1960) and Goat Song (1967).
He was the first American of African descent to become a millionaire through his writing.

Young / Before famous

He graduated from Paine College and Fisk University. He later taught at both Southern Universities in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Florida A&M University.

Family life info

He grew up in Augusta, Georgia, the son of mixed-race parents. He married Blanca Call-Perez in 1956.

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His popular novel, The Foxes of Harrow, was made into a movie starring Rex Harrison.

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When was Novelist Frank Yerby born?
Frank Yerby was born in 5-9-1916, death year is , at the age of 108.
Where is Novelist Frank Yerby's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Frank Yerby was born in Georgia, . Là Novelist, whose Zodiac is Virgo, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Dragon. Frank Yerby's global rank is 90641 and whose rank is 1157 in list of famous Novelist. Population of US in 1916 is about 101,961,000 persons.
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Events in 1916 and 5-9

Events in US in the birth year of Frank Yerby

  • Congress authorizes a plan to expand the U.S. armed forces over the next five years (June).
  • Montana voters elect 36-year-old Republican Jeannette Rankin, the first woman to serve in the U.S. Congress.
  • U.S. National Park Service in the Department of the Interior is created by act of Congress (Aug. 20).
  • Margaret Sanger opens the first birth control clinic in the country at 46 Amboy St., Brooklyn.

Birthday Frank Yerby (5-9) in history

  • Day 5-9 year 1698: Peter, the Great of Russia, issued a strange decree, taxing bearded men.
  • Day 5-9 year 1774: The first Continental Congress met in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  • Day 5-9 year 1836: The Republic of Texas made miltary hero Sam Houston its first president.
  • Day 5-9 year 1905: The Treaty of Portsmouth, which ended the Russo-Japanese War, was signed at the Portsmouth naval base in New Hampshire.
  • Day 5-9 year 1972: Palestinian guerrillas killed 11 Israelis at the Munich Summer Olympics.
  • Day 5-9 year 1997: Humanitarian Mother Teresa, who won a Nobel Peace Prize for her work with the poor, died in Calcutta, India, at age 87.
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