In 1955 he left the United States in protest against racial discrimination and moved to Spain, where he remained for the rest of his life. Critics called The Foxes of Harrow another "Gone With The Wind." Although he objected to this criticism, his novels of the 1950s and 1960s began to address issues of race. Although it became a best-seller (making him the first African-American to produce a best-seller in the U.S.) and went on to become a 20th Century Fox film called "Foxes", he was criticized for showing a lack of racial consciousness in his work. Its the eve of Secession, and the city is astir, but he just wants to settle where his vittles, bourbon, and cigars are going to come from. A handsome Visigoth noble, Alaric Teudisson, struggles with the forces of good and evil within him and his fate to be the king as Medieval. His first book, The Foxes of Harrow (1946), was a romance novel set in the Antebellum South. An Odor of Sanctity: A Novel of Medieval Moorish Spain. He disliked teaching and moved instead to Detroit, Michigan, to work for the Ford Motor Co., which gave him time for writing. University) in Tallahassee, Florida for one term and then moved to Southern University in Baton Rouge, LA, where he taught for another year. After university, he taught English at Florida A. in English at Paine College and in 1938 he got an M.A. Frank Yerby was born in Augusta, Georgia, the son of a mixed-race marriage (his father was African American and his mother was caucasian).
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