<p>Traces previously unexplored aspects of the career of the influential African-American writer, citing the historical backdrop of her life and work while considering her relationships with and influences on top literary, intellectual, and artistic figures. 60,000 first printing.</p>

Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston

Biographies & Memoirs

Valerie Boyd

Arts & Literature

Scribner

<p>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.</p>

Wrapped in Rainbows: the Life of Zora Neale Hurston

Virago Press Ltd.

Zora Neale Hurston, one of the most influential  African-American writers of the twentieth century, was a woman of  enormous talent, remarkable drive and intellectual prowess.  She  published four novels, including her most famous, Their Eyes Were  Watching God, two books of folklore, an autobiography, short stories  and plays. Yet though she enjoyed some popularity during her lifetime,  her greatest acclaim came posthumously. Nearly every black woman  writer of significance - including Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison and  Alice Walker - acknowledges Zora Neale Hurston as their literary  foremother.  Wrapped in Rainbows is a compelling profile of this intrepid and  inspiring woman. Valerie Boyd presents a full picture of the writer  and the woman.

Wrapped in Rainbows : A Biography of Zora Neale Hurston

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Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston

Wrapped in Rainbows: the Life of Zora Neale Hurston

Wrapped in Rainbows : A Biography of Zora Neale Hurston