Here is Zora Neale Hurston's candid, funny, bold, and poignant autobiography, an imaginative and exhuberant account of her rise from childhood povery in the rual South to a prominent place among the leading artists and intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance. As compelling as her renowned fiction, Hurston's very personal literary self-portrait offers a revealing, often audacious glimpse into the life-and public and private-of an extraoridinary artist, anthropologist, chronicler, and champion of the black experience in America.
Freshman Common Read: University of Central Florida
Here is Zora Neale Hurston's candid, funny, bold, and poignant autobiography, an imaginative and exhuberant account of her rise from childhood povery in the rual South to a prominent place among the leading artists and intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance. As compelling as her renowned fiction, Hurston's very personal literary self-portrait offers a revealing, often audacious glimpse into the life-and public and private-of an extraoridinary artist, anthropologist, chronicler, and champion of the black experience in America.
Freshman Common Read: University of Central Florida