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The Vixens

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The Vixens
AuthorFrank Yerby
LanguageEnglish
GenreHistorical
PublisherDial Press
Publication date
1947
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint
Preceded byThe 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

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

Bibliography

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  • 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.