Trivia

African-American best-selling author of action-filled romantic period fiction. Yerby's short story "Health Card" won a special O. Henry Memorial Award for a first published short story in 1944. His first novel, The Foxes of Harrow, was incredibly successful; published in 1946, by the end of the year it had sold over a million copies. He went on to publish 32 more novels. In the latter half of his life, Yerby lived in France and then in Spain.

With wife Flora Helen Claire Williams, he had four children: Jacques Loring, Nikki Ethlyn, Faune Ellena, and Jan Keith.