Sharon D. reviewed on 12/4/2005 + 224 more book reviews

Here is a biography about Zora Neale Hurston... it is a gorgeous epic, larger than life. All her books were out of print when she died in poverty in 1960, but today nearly every black woman writer of significance - Alice Walker, Maya Angelou, and Toni Morrison - acknowledges Hurston as a literary foremother. And her masterpiece "Their Eyes Were Watching God" has become a crucial part of the American literary canon.

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