Frank Yerby

Frank Yerby was born on Sep 05, 1916 in USA. Frank Yerby's big-screen debut came with The Golden Hawk directed by Sidney Salkow in 1952.

Frank Garvin Yerby was born in Augusta, Georgia, on September 5th, 1916. His father, Rufus Garvin Yerby, was a hotel doorman of black, white, and native American ancestry. His mother, the former Wilhelmina Ethel Smythe, was a teacher of white and more distant black ancestry. He attended private elementary and high school, the Haines Institute, predominately black, and received a Bachelor of Arts in English from Paine College. He received a Master of Arts in English from Fisk University in 1938, yet it would be close to seven years before his first story, "Health Card", winner of the O. Henry Memorial Award for best first published short story in 1944, started him on his career.