"Frank Garvin Yerby" was an African-American List of historical novelists/historical novelist. He is best known as the first African-American writer to become a millionaire from his pen, and to have a book purchased by a Hollywood studio for a film adaptation.

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The middle years - the eighteen-seventies, 'eighties, 'nineties - were a time of moral bankruptcy when men stole millions by a stroke of the pen or by the simple expedient of printing tons of worthless paper.

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There was no wind in all that sweep of sky.

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From where they stood, they could see the castle.

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When it was over, it was not really over, and that was the trouble.

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