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Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston (Lisa Drew Books (Paperback))

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Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston (Lisa Drew Books (Paperback))

From critically acclaimed journalist Valerie Boyd comes an eloquent profile of one of the most intriguing cultural figures of the twentieth centuryâ€”Zora 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 significanceâ€”including Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, and Alice Walkerâ€”acknowledges 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. Acclaimed journalist Valerie Boyd delves into Hurstonâ€™s historyâ€”her youth in the countryâ€™s first incorporated all-black town, her friendships with luminaries such as Langston Hughes, her sexuality and short-lived marriages, and her mysterious relationship with vodou. With the Harlem Renaissance, the Great Depression, and World War II as historical backdrops, Wrapped in Rainbows not only positions Hurstonâ€™s work in her time but also offers riveting implications for our own.

Country	USA
Author	Valerie Boyd
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781439125410
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	Scribner
Manufacturer	Scribner
NumberOfPages	528
PublicationDate	2011-10-04
Publisher	Scribner
ReleaseDate	2011-10-04
Studio	Scribner

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