About Frank Yerby: Frank Garvin Yerby is best known as the first African-American writer to become a millionaire from his pen, and to have a book purchased by a Hollywood studio for a film adaptation.
About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until it is almost a sea and the water is yellow with the mud of half a continent. Where the sun strikes it, it is golden.
From where they stood, they could see the castle.
When it was over, it was not really over, and that was the trouble.
There was no wind in all that sweep of sky.
