The Vixens Explained

The Vixens
Author:	Frank Yerby
Country:	United States
Language:	English
Genre:	Historical
Publisher:	Dial Press
Release Date:	1947
Media Type:	Print
Preceded By:	The Foxes of Harrow

The Vixens is a 1947 historical novel by the American writer Frank Yerby.^[1] It was his second published novel and like the first, The Foxes of Harrow, to which it was a sequel it was a commercial success and was ranked fifth on the Publishers Weekly list of bestselling novels that year.^[2] Yerby himself disliked the book and later described it as his worst novel.^[3]

Bibliography

• Brown, Stephanie. The Postwar African American Novel: Protest and Discontent, 1945-1950. University Press of Mississippi, 2011.
• Hill, James Lee. Anti-heroic Perspectives: The Life and Works of Frank Yerby. University of Iowa, 1976.
• Korda, Michael. Making the List: A Cultural History of the American Bestseller, 1900–1999 : as Seen Through the Annual Bestseller Lists of Publishers Weekly. Barnes & Noble Publishing, 2001.

Notes and References

1. Hill p.27
2. Korda p.95
3. Brown p.73