September 5, 1916 Frank Garvin Yerby, novelist, was born in Augusta, Georgia. Yerby earned a B. A. degree in English from Paine College in 1932. Yerby was originally noted for writing romance novels set in the Antebellum South. In the 1940s, he embarked on a series of best selling historical novels ranging from the Athens […]
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Frank Garvin Yerby – September 5th in African American History
By Chimsima Zuhri on September 5, 2010 in African American History, Author, September
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