Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters Kaplan Carla
Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters Kaplan Carla " I mean to live and die by my own mind," Zora Neale Hurston told the writer Countee Cullen. Not until the 1970s was she rediscovered by Alice…
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Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters Kaplan Carla
" I mean to live and die by my own mind," Zora Neale Hurston told the writer Countee Cullen. Not until the 1970s was she rediscovered by Alice Walker and other admirers. Arriving in Harlem in 1925 with little more than a dollar to her name, Hurston rose to become one of the central figures of the Harlem Renaissance, only to die in obscurity.
Carla Kaplan, a noted Hurston scholar, has found hundreds of revealing, previously unpublished letters for this definitive collection; she also provides extensive and illuminating commentary on Hurston's life and work, as well as an annotated glossary of the organizations and personalities Although Hurston has entered the pantheon as one of the most influential American writers of the 20th century, the true nature of her personality has proven elusive.Now, a brilliant, complicated and utterly arresting woman emerges from this landmark book.
Zora Neale Hurston