Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston

by Boyd

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A woman of enormous talent, remarkable drive, and rare intellectual prowess, Zora Neale Hurston published four novels, two books of folklore, an autobiography, many short stories, and several articles and plays over a career that spanned more than thirty years. Although she enjoyed some popularity during her lifetime, her greatest acclaim has come posthumously. All of her books were out of print when she died in poverty in 1960, but today nearly every black woman writer of significance -- including Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, and Alice Walker -- acknowledges Hurston as a literary foremother. And her masterpiece, "Their Eyes...Read more
  • ISBN10 0684842300
  • ISBN13 9780684842301
  • Publish Date 24 December 2002
  • Publish Status Out of Stock
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Simon & Schuster
  • Pages 528
  • Language English