num_pages: 527
description: From critically acclaimed journalist Valerie Boyd comes an eloquent profile of one of the most intriguing cultural figures of the twentieth century—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 significance—including Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, and Alice Walker—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.
language: English
title: Wrapped in rainbows : the life of Zora Neale Hurston
titlecomplete: Wrapped in rainbows : the life of Zora Neale Hurston
characters: Zora Neale Hurston
genres: Writing, Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction, Womens, Feminism, Biography Memoir, Race, History, African American
ratings_count: 1106
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Hurston/Wright Legacy Award
category: Nonfiction
publisher: Scribner