Frank J. Webb
African-American novelist, poet and essayist (1828-1894) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Francis Johnson Webb (March 21, 1828 – 1894) was an American novelist, poet, and essayist from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His novel, The Garies and Their Friends (1857), was the second novel by an African American to be published, and the first to portray the daily lives of free blacks in the North.