Zora!

Zora! PDF Author: N. Y. Nathiri
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 150

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Book Description
Biography of folklorist Zora Neale Hurston who collected Southern African American culture.

Zora!

Zora! PDF Author: N. Y. Nathiri
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 150

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Book Description
Biography of folklorist Zora Neale Hurston who collected Southern African American culture.

Zora and Me

Zora and Me PDF Author: Victoria Bond
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763643009
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190

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A tale inspired by the early life of Zora Neale Hurston finds the imaginative future author telling fantastical stories about a mythical evil creature until a racially charged murder threatens to shatter the peace in her turn-of-the-century Southern community. A first novel.

Zora!

Zora! PDF Author: Judith Bloom Fradin
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547006950
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 197

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Book Description
A biography of African American author Zora Neale Hurston.

Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston PDF Author: Carla Kaplan, Ph.D.
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0307430367
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 906

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“ I mean to live and die by my own mind,” Zora Neale Hurston told the writer Countee Cullen. Arriving in Harlem in 1925 with little more than a dollar to her name, Hurston rose to become one of the central figures of the Harlem Renaissance, only to die in obscurity. Not until the 1970s was she rediscovered by Alice Walker and other admirers. Although Hurston has entered the pantheon as one of the most influential American writers of the 20th century, the true nature of her personality has proven elusive. Now, a brilliant, complicated and utterly arresting woman emerges from this landmark book. Carla Kaplan, a noted Hurston scholar, has found hundreds of revealing, previously unpublished letters for this definitive collection; she also provides extensive and illuminating commentary on Hurston’s life and work, as well as an annotated glossary of the organizations and personalities that were important to it. From her enrollment at Baltimore’s Morgan Academy in 1917, to correspondence with Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Langston Hughes, Dorothy West and Alain Locke, to a final query letter to her publishers in 1959, Hurston’s spirited correspondence offers an invaluable portrait of a remarkable, irrepressible talent.

Zora and Nicky

Zora and Nicky PDF Author: Claudia Mair Burney
Publisher: David C Cook
ISBN: 9780781445504
Category : African American women
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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What do Zora, a Black American Princess and Nicky, a blond haired blue eyed Berkeley grad have in common? Absolutely nothing except for their excruciatingly out of touch preacher fathers.

Zora Neale Hurston's Final Decade

Zora Neale Hurston's Final Decade PDF Author: Virginia Lynn Moylan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780813035789
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Moylan, founding member of the Fort Pierce, Fla., Annual Zora Festival, draws heavily on two texts (Valerie Boyd's biography Wrapped in Rainbows, and Carla Kaplan's edition of Hurston's letters, Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters), supplemented by a number of interviews with the employers, acquaintances, and friends of Hurston's last decade. After a brief biographical sketch of Hurston's early years, Moylan addresses, the false child molestation charges that, even after they were recanted, left Hurston's reputation in tatters, and her very controversial (in Moylan's words, "eccentric") objections to Brown v. Board of Education and desegregation on the grounds that, in her perspective, "racial uplift" would come by individual effort alone. Hurston's final creative projects-her development of an "anthropologically correct" black baby doll and planned biography of King Herod attest to how the famously idiosyncratic and iconoclastic writer remained deeply unpredictable and fascinating, and that her "lost years" merit a thoughtful and thorough biography

Zora and Me: The Cursed Ground

Zora and Me: The Cursed Ground PDF Author: T. R. Simon
Publisher: Candlewick Press
ISBN: 0763699632
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 167

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A powerful fictionalized account of Zora Neale Hurston’s childhood adventures explores the idea of collective memory and the lingering effects of slavery. “History ain’t in a book, especially when it comes to folks like us. History is in the lives we lived and the stories we tell each other about those lives.” When Zora Neale Hurston and her best friend, Carrie Brown, discover that the town mute can speak after all, they think they’ve uncovered a big secret. But Mr. Polk’s silence is just one piece of a larger puzzle that stretches back half a century to the tragic story of an enslaved girl named Lucia. As Zora’s curiosity leads a reluctant Carrie deeper into the mystery, the story unfolds through alternating narratives. Lucia’s struggle for freedom resonates through the years, threatening the future of America’s first incorporated black township — the hometown of author Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960). In a riveting coming-of-age tale, award-winning author T. R. Simon champions the strength of a people to stand up for justice.

Zora and Langston: A Story of Friendship and Betrayal

Zora and Langston: A Story of Friendship and Betrayal PDF Author: Yuval Taylor
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393243923
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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Book Description
A Finalist for the 2019 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Biography “A complete pleasure to read.” —Lisa Page, Washington Post Novelist Zora Neale Hurston and poet Langston Hughes, two of America’s greatest writers, first met in New York City in 1925. Drawn to each other, they helped launch a radical journal, Fire!! Later, meeting by accident in Alabama, they became close as they traveled together—Hurston interviewing African Americans for folk stories, Hughes getting his first taste of the deep South. By illuminating their lives, work, competitiveness, and ambitions, Yuval Taylor savvily details how their friendship and literary collaborations dead-ended in acrimonious accusations.

Wrapped in Rainbows

Wrapped in Rainbows PDF Author: Valerie Boyd
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0684842300
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 546

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Book Description
Traces 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.

Jump at the Sun

Jump at the Sun PDF Author: Alicia D. Williams
Publisher: Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books
ISBN: 1534419136
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 48

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From the Newbery Honor–winning author of Genesis Begins Again comes a shimmering picture book that shines the light on Zora Neale Hurston, the extraordinary writer and storycatcher extraordinaire who changed the face of American literature. Zora was a girl who hankered for tales like bees for honey. Now, her mama always told her that if she wanted something, “to jump at de sun”, because even though you might not land quite that high, at least you’d get off the ground. So Zora jumped from place to place, from the porch of the general store where she listened to folktales, to Howard University, to Harlem. And everywhere she jumped, she shined sunlight on the tales most people hadn’t been bothered to listen to until Zora. The tales no one had written down until Zora. Tales on a whole culture of literature overlooked…until Zora. Until Zora jumped.