![]() Ultimately, the book became a 1947 Oscar-nominated film starring Rex Harrison and Maureen O'Hara. That same year he also became the first African-American to have a book purchased for screen adaptation by a Hollywood studio, when 20th Century Fox optioned Foxes. In 1946, he became the first African-American to publish a best-seller with The Foxes of Harrow. Yerby took considerable pains in research, and often footnoted his historical novels. In mid-century, Yerby embarked on a series of best-selling historical novels ranging from the Athens of Pericles to Europe in the Dark Ages. Born in Augusta, Georgia to Rufus Garvin Yerby, an African American, and Wilhelmina Smythe, who was caucasian, Yerby was originally noted for writing romance novels set in the Antebellum South. ![]() He is best known as the first African American to write a best-selling novel and to have a book purchased by a Hollywood studio for a film adaptation. Frank Garvin Yerby (Septem) was an African American historical novelist. ![]()
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