Zora Neale Hurston : A Life in Letters

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A landmark collection of more than five hundred letters, written by a woman at the heart of the Harlem Renaissance, who remains one of the most intriguing people in American cultural history.

Alice Walker's 1975 Ms. magazine article, "Looking for Zora, " reintroduced Zora Neale Hurston to the American literary landscape and ushered in what was to be a virtual renaissance for a writer who at her peak in the 1930s was a bestselling author, but died penniless and in obscurity some three decades later.

Since Walker's rediscovery of novelist, anthropologist, playwright, folklorist, essayist, and poet Zora Neale, Hurston, Hurston's books, from the classic love story Their Eyes Were Watching God, to her controversial autobiography, Dust Tracks on the Road, have sold millions of copies, and are taught in American, African-American, and women's studies courses in high schools and universities from coast to coast.

Now, in "Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters," the fascinating world of one of themost enigmatic literary figures of the twentieth century comes alive. Through letters to Harlem Renaissance friends Langston Hughes, Alain Locke, Dorothy West, and Carl Van Vechten and to bestselling author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Fannie Hurst among others, readers experience the exuberance and trials of Hurston's life. Her letters to her patron Mrs. Charlotte "Godmother" Osgood Mason, laced with equal amounts of cynicism and reverence, offer a fascinating glimpse of

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