Frank Yerby: A Victim’s Guilt is an imaginative work that transports the reader into a mysterious and fascinating world were history and fiction merge within the actuality of Frank Yerby’s mind. Characters from Frank Yerby’s own books snatch him from his deathbed and demand that he recant his doctrine of the ‘victim’s guilt’. They believe this doctrine has condemned Yerby to oblivion… and his characters as well. Their will to survive is pitted against Yerby’s pernicious belief with unforeseen consequences for all.

About the Author

Eugene Stovall was born and raised in Oakland, California where he received a catholic education. At the age of eighteen, he was invested into the Knights of Peter Claver. After attending St. Joseph’s College Seminary where he studied for the Catholic priesthood, Stovall enlisted in the U.S. Air Force and received an honorable discharge in 1963. In 1969, Stovall graduated magna cum laude from the University of California, Berkeley. After researching the Swedish Ombudsman at the University of Lund in Sweden, Stovall was awarded at Master’s Degree from the University of California at Davis. As a National Foundation Fellow, Stovall received his Ph.D in Political Theory from the Political Science Department at University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Stovall has worked for the California State Legislature, the University of California’s Institute of Race & Community Relations, Pacific Bell and the Oakland Unified School District. Dr. Stovall has been an adjunct faculty member at USF, St. Mary’s College, San Francisco State University and Merritt College.

Eugene Stovall has published two novels: Frank Yerby: A Victim’s Guilt, 2007 Bronze Medal Winner of the IBPA award in the multiethnic category. Blood & Brotherhood: A Novel of Love in a Time of Hate.  He is the recipient of an award from the Hayward/ South County NAACP for his novel about Frank Yerby. In May, 2006, Dr. Stovall hosted a Frank Yerby Symposium at the Oakland Museum. A third novel, The Idumean Covenant, is currently being submitted for publication.