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When I was young I used to enjoy reading the historical novels of Frank Yerby. I'm about to turn 75 so that was a very long time ago. Since then I've been unable to find them as ebooks.
Yerby is almost forgotten these days, for some reason. Back in the 1940s and 1950s he was a huge bestselling author. The majority of his books would have to be classified today as historical romance novels about plantation life in past centuries in the USA. However, he wrote more serious historical novels as well, and those are the ones I'd like to re-read. But I can't, it seems. Amazon has one, which I've bought and have on my Kindle. And that's it.
Quite a few of his novels were made into movies. During his lifetime he sold 55 million books and they were translated into quite a few languages. It's amazing to me that someone that popular can simply disappear.
I remember a news report about him, probably sometime in the 1960's, where it was reported that he was a black man and that his publishers had always kept that a secret. Now I can't find any mention of that ever having been a secret. It seems that history keeps right on changing.
Barry
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