Born september 5, 1916, to rufus garvin and wilhelmina yerby, augusta, ga native frank yerby began his literary career as a writer of fiction protesting the marginalization of africanamericans in american particularly southern society and ended his career, living a selfimposed exile in madrid, spain, as a bestselling author of historicalfiction. Yerby s writing about the african experience in the new world takes on an objectivity which tells the story of actual events in the east west dialogue. Buy odour of sanctity new impression by yerby, frank isbn. Frank garvin yerby 19160905september 5, 1916 19911129november 29, 1991 was an american writer, best known for his 1946 historical novel the foxes of. This time the background is hispania during the ninth century and, we can confidently assure yerbys critics that he is just as amusingly awful as hes ever been. Frank yerby, an odor of sanctity, dial press, new york, 1965. Frank yerby was a tireless researcher spending hours in books, libraries and on location researching the facts for each of his novels. This time the background is hispania during the ninth century and, we can confidently assure yerby s critics that he is just as amusingly awful as hes ever been. An odor of sanctity by frank yerby book cover, description, publication history. Frank yerby project gutenberg selfpublishing ebooks. He questions the faith and prejudices of his culture which is spain in the.
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