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.

This seller consistently earned 5-star reviews, shipped on time, and replied. 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 by Frank Yerby. An Odor of Sanctity A Novel of Medieval Moorish Spain by Frank Yerby and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. 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. Yerby is a master at balancing his action scenes with his philosophical discourse, so that it becomes neither shallow nor heavy-handed. Frank Yerby, An Odor of Sanctity (1965), about Emir al-Rahman II in ninth century Moorish Spain and a Christian Goth who becomes an instrument of the defeat. Frank Yerby was born in Augusta, Georgia, the son of a mixed-race marriage (his father was African American and his mother was caucasian). Alaric moves from believer to skeptic and, perhaps, sainthood in the course of forty years, while at the same time sampling a wide variety of women, lifestyles and careers. An odor of sanctity by Frank Yerby, 1965, Dial Press edition, in English.

An Odor of Sanctity by Frank Yerby