Zora Neale Hurston

A Literary Biography

by Robert E. Hemenway

This life of Zora Neale Hurston, with an emphasis on how her life and her books were connected, also includes a foreword by Alice Walker, who claims Hurston as a major influence on her own work.

Editions of Zora Neale Hurston

	ISBN 9780252008078	Binding/Format Paperback	Publisher Univ of Illinois Pr	Date 1980	Price $4.11	Good
	ISBN 9780252006524	Binding/Format Hardcover	Publisher Univ of Illinois Pr	Date 1977	Price $5.37	Used - Good

Publisher Notes

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.

Media Reviews

"[Hurston's] present obscurity reflects her staunchly independent political stances far more than it does an absence of craft or a lack of vision....[The author describes her] as 'flamboyant yet vulnerable, self-centered yet kind, a Republican conservative and an early black nationalist.' ...Never does Hemenway oversimplify the relation between Miss Hurton's art and her life; never does he reduce the complexity of her postwar politics....Perhaps Hemenway's excellent biography will allow Miss Hurston to be read again, for all the right reasons."

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