Zora and Langston A Story of Friendship and Betrayal

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Zora and Langston  A Story of Friendship and Betrayal
Author : Yuval Taylor
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Language : English
Release Date : 26 March 2019
ISBN : 9780393243925
Pages : 336 pages
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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.

Zora and Langston  A Story of Friendship and Betrayal

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