Wrapped in Rainbows: the Life of Zora Neale Hurston
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From critically acclaimed journalist Valerie Boyd comes an eloquent profile of one of the most intriguing cultural figures of the twentieth centuryZora Neale Hurston. A woman of enormous talent and remarkable drive Zora Neale Hurston published seven books many short stories and several articles and plays over a career that spanned more than thirty years. Today nearly every black woman writer of significanceincluding Maya Angelou Toni Morrison and Alice Walkeracknowledges Hurston as a literary foremother and her 1937 masterpiece Their Eyes Were Watching God has become a crucial part of the modern literary canon. Wrapped in Rainbows the first biography of Zora Neale Hurston in more than twenty-five years illuminates the adventures complexities and sorrows of an extraordinary life.
