Yerby, Frank Garvin

1916 - Born in Augusta, Georgia

1937 - Studied at Paine College

1938 - Took up his masters at Fisk University

1939 - Went to graduate school at the University of Chicago

1939-1941 - Taught in English in the South

1941-1944 - He was a laboratory technician

1944 - Won a O. Henry Special Award for his short story “Health Card”

1944-1945 - Chief inspector for Fairchild Aircraft in Jamaica, New York

1946 - Released his best selling novel The Foxes of Harrow

1947 - The Vixens

1950S - Lived in Florida

1955 - Immigrated to Madrid, Spain

1957 - Did Fair Oaks

1962 - Griffin's Way, a novel set in the Civil War period which contributed to the revolution on the way

romantic myths about slavery and Reconstruction in the South were being done

1964 - The Old Gods Laugh

1969 - Speak Now

1971 - The Dahomean

1984 - Devilseed

1985 - Mckenzie’s Hundred

1991 - The 1st best-selling black novelist in US died