Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History honoring local famous novelist and writer Frank Yerby [Video]

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WJBF) – A Famous Novelist is being remembered and recognized in Augusta in a few ways this week, just in time for his birthday.

Frank Yerby was born in Augusta, Georgia September 5th, 1916, and died in 1991 in Madrid Spain. He had many accomplishments in his lifetime that are now being recognized by his hometown with a dedicated bench at the Lucy Craft Laney Museum of Black History.

“You’re talking about an author that pinned 33 novels and became perhaps the first black writer to become a millionaire just from writing,” said Leon Maben, Vice President of the Augusta Public Art Advisory Panel. “And then the most and intriguing thing of all is three of his novels got picked up from by Hollywood and turned into motion pictures during a time that our society of Jim Crow and Segregation.”

An author from Augusta who was a part of the Augusta Literary …