Zora Neale Hurston Writer and Storyteller |
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| Author:
| Mckissack, Patricia
Mckissack, Fredrick |
| Series title: | Great African Americans Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-7660-1694-1 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2002 |
| Publisher: | Enslow Publishing, LLC
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $13.95USD $21.60 |
Book Description:
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All her life, Zora Neale Hurston dreamed of becoming a successful writer. She traveled throughout the southern United States and Caribbean to collect what she called "lying stories." These tales of African-American culture and folklore became the core of her writing. With easy-to-read simplicity, Patricia and Fredrick McKissack paint a lyrical portrait of this gifted storyteller of the Harlem Renaissance.
All her life, Zora Neale Hurston dreamed of becoming a successful writer. She traveled throughout the southern United States and Caribbean to collect what she called "lying stories." These tales of African-American culture and folklore became the core of her writing. With easy-to-read simplicity, Patricia and Fredrick McKissack paint a lyrical portrait of this gifted storyteller of the Harlem Renaissance.