Zora Neale Hurston A Life in Letters

Zora Neale Hurston lived in an era when letter writing was the way to communicate with friends and associates. And communicate Hurston did. From 1917 to 1959, she wrote to her teachers, her benefactors, her editors, her colleagues and her friends. She left behind her a brilliant if not always self-revealing record of her ambitions, her triumphs, and her pain. Kaplan has arranged these letters by decade and she provides the reader with a carefully documented and clearly written account of Hurston's life during each decade as an introduction to each segment of letters.