tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18602000.post8205297881637706689..comments2023-11-05T08:08:48.848-05:00Comments on The Bunburyist: Elizabeth Foxwellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10151714538393844565noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18602000.post-84365897371549311292007-09-08T21:08:00.000-04:002007-09-08T21:08:00.000-04:00The figure I've seen for Yerby is more than 55 mil...The figure I've seen for Yerby is more than 55 million copies of his books sold worldwide (between the years 1946 and 1985). The sales figure I've seen for Haley's _Roots_ is 7.5 million. I'm not certain what Morrison's sales figures are, although I did see in one Publishers' Weekly that her novel _Sula_ sold upward of 500,000 copies.Elizabeth Foxwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10151714538393844565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18602000.post-47605847694843143812007-09-08T13:06:00.000-04:002007-09-08T13:06:00.000-04:00Is he the best-selling African-American writer of ...Is he the best-selling African-American writer of all time? He wrote something like dozens of best-sellers, but I never have seen anyone crunch the numbers as to who actually sold more books in total, Yerby or Toni Morrison or Alex Haley.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18602000.post-3796078224547407982007-09-05T21:44:00.000-04:002007-09-05T21:44:00.000-04:00I understand that Yerby was criticized during his ...I understand that Yerby was criticized during his lifetime for works that were perceived as insufficiently engaged with racial issues (perhaps because many of his characters were white), but as Yerby wrote _The Dahomean_ and _A Darkness at Ingraham's Crest_, which both deal with slavery, I was somewhat mystified by this point of view. He called what he wrote "costume novels."Elizabeth Foxwellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10151714538393844565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18602000.post-22446952713247179702007-09-05T21:30:00.000-04:002007-09-05T21:30:00.000-04:00Wow. Frank Yerby. When I was growing up he was ine...Wow. Frank Yerby. When I was growing up he was inescapable. I recall reading a few of his books and liking them.Ed Gormanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06126267358266480356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18602000.post-83891146637134429572007-09-05T10:27:00.000-04:002007-09-05T10:27:00.000-04:00I remember doing a book report on a Yerby novel wh...I remember doing a book report on a Yerby novel when I was in high school, a century or so ago. My wife has read nearly every book he ever wrote.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02350478005243505108noreply@blogger.com