Description: Gathered together for the first time, a collection of the little-known but groundbreaking African American writer
Brief description: Veronica T. Watson is professor of English and director of the literature and criticism program at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She is coeditor of Unveiling Whiteness in the Twenty-First Century: Global Manifestations, Transdisciplinary Interventions; editor of The Short Stories of Frank Yerby; and author of The Souls of White Folk: African American Writers Theorize Whiteness, the latter two published by University Press of Mississippi.
Review Quotes: The Short Stories of Frank Yerby is an important collection, specifically at this historical moment. Yerby's legacy was far reaching, and the stories contained within this collection--dealing with everything from the social construction of race, the rise of xenophobia, the demythologizing of the Old South, and the social construction of gender--have continued resonance.--Matthew Teutsch, editor of Rediscovering Frank Yerby: Critical Essays