The Vixens

The Vixens

Author	Frank Yerby
Language	English
Genre	Historical
Publisher	Dial Press
Publication date	1947
Publication place	United States
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]

References

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

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.