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Yerby established a canon of work that celebrates individual triumphs over the social, political and economic forces that seek to crush the human spirit. The video transcript of the first ever Frank Yerby Symposium gives insights into Yerby's thoughts as seen by scholars and booklovers from all over the country.

In this DVD symposium, Yerby's ability to strip his characters of their emotionalism and deprive them of their sentimentality is highlighted. We learn how he motivates them simply by their own particular interests and he forces them to bear the consequences of their own good or bad decisions. No higher power … whether theological or secular… is allowed to come to their aid. In this way, Yerby affirms that a human agency abounds in the world. This human agency remains the true cause of all that exists on the practical level. This agency is intelligent thinking and self-absorbed. It makes rational judgments and intelligent choices … whether as predator or as prey. In Yerby’s books, his characters, whether born slave or noble … or somewhere in between … must either exercise their own free will or succumb to their individual fate.