Zora and Langston : a story of friendship and betrayal
Taylor, Yuval2019
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Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes were collaborators, literary gadflies and close companions. They travelled together in Hurston's dilapidated car through the rural southern US collecting folklore, worked on the play Mule Bone and wrote scores of loving letters to each other. They even had the same patron: Charlotte Osgood Mason, a wealthy white woman who insisted on being called 'Godmother'. Paying them lavishly while trying to control their work, Mason may have been the spark for their bitter falling-out. Yuval Taylor answers questions about their split while illuminating Hurston's and Hughes's lives, work, competitiveness and ambition.
Main title:
Zora and Langston : a story of friendship and betrayal / Yuval Taylor.
Author:
Taylor, Yuval, author
Edition:
First edition.
Imprint:
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2019]©2019
Collation:
xii, 302 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780393243918 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
813.52
Language:
English
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BRN:
2263264
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