The Controversial Frank Yerby: He Stopped Writing About the Race Problem (Video)

I lived in Augusta, Georgia, for nearly a decade and did not know that Frank Yerby, a famous African-American author, was from there. And I was also a fan of swashbuckler movies as a child, but I had no idea a black man, Yerby, wrote the book upon which the movie The Saracen Blade was based.From the New Georgia Encylopedia, Frank Yerby (1916-1991):Frank Yerby rose to fame as a writer of popular