Zora Neale Hurston
Subtitle: A LITERARY BIOGRAPHY
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: September 1, 1980
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9780252008078
Subjects: Biography: general; Novels, other prose & writers: from c 1900 -; Women and literature; History; Biography; Biography / Autobiography; American English; Folklorists; USA; Hurston, Zora Neale; Literary; Social Science / African-American Studies; Authors, American; 20th century; African American authors; Southern States; United States
First sentence: In the first week of January, 1925, Zora Neale Hurston arrived in New York City with one dollar and fifty cents in her purse, no job, no friends, but filled with "a lot of hope."
Description: Reconstructs the events, relationships, and achievements that marked the life of the black novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist, assessing her important works and commitment to the black folk tradition.