A life in letters zora neale hurston
A life in letters zora neale hurston and langston hughes...
Carla Kaplan
"I mean to live and die by my own mind."
Hurston spoke those words to writer and friend Countée Cullen.
A life in letters zora neale hurston
Arriving in Harlem with little more than a dollar to her name, Hurston rose to become one of the central figures of the Harlem Renaissance and succeeding decades, only to die in obscurity. Although she has now entered the literary pantheon as one of the most influential American writers of the 20th century, the true nature of her personality has proven elusive.
Here in her letters, however, a brilliant, complicated, and utterly captivating woman emerges.
Through letters to Harlem Renaissance friends such as Langston Hughes, Alain Locke, Dorothy West, and Carl Van Vechten, and to bestselling writers Fannie Hurst, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, and others, readers experience the exuberance and trials of Hurston's life.
This definitive collection contains hundreds of Hurston's previously unpublished letters, culled from dozens of archives across the nation. With a