5/22/2023 0 Comments An Odor of Sanctity by Frank YerbyTwo years later, Yerby would publish his first short story, "Salute to the Flag," in the November 1936 issue of The Paineite, the student newspaper of Paine College. He began his literary career while he was a student at Paine College by publishing poetry, starting with the poems "Miracles" and "Brevity" in the September 1934 issue of New Challenge, a literary magazine published by Dorothy West. He was a professor of English at Florida A&M University from 1939 - 1940 and then Southern University in Louisiana from 1940 - 1941, before moving to Detroit and New York, where he worked in wartime defense industries. In 1938, he began courses for a doctorate in English at the University of Chicago, but left school for financial reasons in 1939. in Dramatic Arts from Fisk University in 1938. In 1937, he graduated from Paine College with a B.A. As a child, Yerby attended Augusta's Haines Institute, a private school for African Americans founded by Lucy Laney, from which he graduated in 1933.
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