{"product_id":"the-short-stories-of-frank-yerby-9781496828521","title":"The Short Stories of Frank Yerby","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrank Yerbys first novel  The Foxes of Harrow  established him as a writer and launched a forty-nine-year career in which he published thirty-three novels. He also became the first African American writer to sell more than a million copies of his work and to have a book adapted into a movie by a Hollywood studio. He garnered legions of loyal fans of his writing. Yet  few know that Yerby began his writing career with the publication of a short story in his school newspaper in 1936  the first of nine stories he would publish in the 1930s and 40s. Most stories appeared in small journals and magazines and were largely forgotten once he started writing novels.  This groundbreaking collection gives readers access to an intriguingly diverse selection of Yerbys short fiction. The stories collected here  eleven of which have never previously been published  paint a picture of Yerby as an intellectual who thought deeply about several philosophical questions at the center of understanding what it means to be human. The stories also reveal him as an artist committed to exploring a range of human drives  longings  conflicts  and passions  from the quirky to the serious  and in a variety of writing styles. With an attention to historical detail  voice  and character that he became known for  these stories give us new insights into this important African American writer who dared to believe he could earn a living as a writer.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45953254457397,"sku":"ByrdShop_1496828526","price":40.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781496828521.jpg?v=1788183066","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-short-stories-of-frank-yerby-9781496828521","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}