5/31/2023 0 Comments An Odor of Sanctity by Frank Yerby![]() Concurrently, with the cumulative effects of his personal experiences as an African American, especially in the South, undergirded by his prodigious research of the history of cultures across the world, Yerby began questioning conventional religious beliefs in his anti-heroic popular novels and in fact, he actually developed philosophical assumptions and beliefs that counter Christian theology. In this historic transition, Yerby modified his protest aim and artistic consciousness, becoming one of America's most avid debunkers of history and myth. In the 1940s, however, Yerby abruptly switched from protest to popular fiction. ![]() Born and reared in Augusta Georgia, the heart of the Bible Belt in the American South, Frank Garvin Yerby began his literary career writing black protest fiction in the tradition of Richard Wright, and like many of his contemporaries, he demonstrated conventional religious thought in his early fiction. ![]()
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