Frank Yerby
FRANK GARVIN YERBY, 38, probably makes more money from books than any novelist now writing in the U.S.
In eight years he has produced eight historical novels which have sold 8,000,000 copies in hard covers alone (The Saracen Blade, The Vixens, The Golden Hawk, etc.). Doubleday's Dollar Book Club (nearly 750,000 members) has picked seven of the eight, and the Literary Guild has often used Yerby's novels as "gift books" to attract new members.
Sales of the novels in paperback editions now total 3,500,000 copies. Since 1946, when The Foxes of Harrow first jumped to the top of the bestseller lists, Yerby's...
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