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Vote: | About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until it is almost a sea and the water is yellow with the mud of half a continent. Where the sun strikes it, it is golden. |
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Vote: | From where they stood, they could see the castle. |
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Vote: | 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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Vote: | There was no wind in all that sweep of sky. |
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Frank Garvin Yerby (September 5, 1916 - November 29, 1991) was an African American historical novelist. His best known work is The Man from Dahomey (1971). Yerby left the United States in 1955 in protest against racial discrimination.
Frank Yerby died in Madrid, Spain and was interred there in the Cementerio de la Almudena.
Books by Frank Yerby *The Foxes of Harrow (1946)
*Pride's Castle (1949)
*Fair Oaks (1957)
*Griffin's Way (1962)
*Judas, My Brother (1964)
*Speak Now (1969)
*The Dahomean (1971, later published as The Man from Dahomey)
*Devilseed (1984)
*McKenzie's Hundred (1985)
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