Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960), her life, works about the Afro-American experience, and her enduring influence are well documented in Valerie Boyd's biography, helping restore the black writer of the 1920s Harlem Renaissance to her rightful place in America's literary hall of fame.
Down and out by the end of her life, Hurston wrote she had 'been in sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots'. But today, most black women writers acknowledge her as a literary foremother. Her pot keeps filling up.
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