Zora! : the life of Zora Neale Hurston / Judith Bloom Fradin and Dennis Brindell Fradin.

Author: Fradin, Judith Bloom.

Publisher: Boston, Mass. : Clarion Books, 2012.

ISBN: 9780547006956 (hbk.)
0547006950 (hbk.)

Description: xi, 180 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.

Subject: Hurston, Zora Neale Juvenile literature.
Hurston, Zora Neale.
Authors, American 20th century Biography Juvenile literature.
African American authors Biography Juvenile literature.
African American women Biography Juvenile literature.
Folklorists United States Biography Juvenile literature.
Authors, American 20th century Biography.
African American authors Biography.
African American women Biography.
Folklorists United States Biography.

Contents: Introduction: "I'll say my say and sing my song" -- "Servants are servants" -- "The moon ran after me" -- "In sorrow's kitchen" -- "The golden stairs" -- "A toe-hold on the world" -- 1927 -- "Most gorgeous possibilities" -- "You. Langston Hughes, cut me to the quick" -- "It cost $1.83 to mail, and I did not have it" -- "I wrote it in seven weeks": Their eyes were watching God -- "I shall keep trying" -- "I had exactly four pennies" -- "Nothing is destructable": the rebirth of Zora Neal Hurston -- Two "lies" (folktales) collected in Florida by Zora Neal Hurston -- Zora timeline.

Summary: This biography of the gifted, energetic, and ambitious African-American author of Their Eyes Were Watching God engages the dreams, challenges, and accomplishments of Hurston, who garnered some recognition during her lifetime, but achieved fame only after her death.