Zora’s Letters

Zora’s Letters
Title Zora’s Letters PDF eBook
Author Irene Colvin-Spencer
Publisher WestBow Press
Pages 45
Release 2018-10-11
Genre Juvenile Fiction
ISBN 1973638096

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l’m hoping that this book encourages children to be themselves and to search out their strengths. It’s their unique quality that will make them shine. Zora was initially led to believe she was destined for greatness. She was, but not as a show dog. Her personality and cuteness stand out. She makes sure she gets the attention of anyone she comes in contact with. She captures the heart of all who have the privilege of meeting her.

Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston
Title Zora Neale Hurston PDF eBook
Author Carla Kaplan, Ph.D.
Publisher Anchor
Pages 906
Release 2007-12-18
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0307430367

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“ I mean to live and die by my own mind,” Zora Neale Hurston told the writer Countee Cullen. Arriving in Harlem in 1925 with little more than a dollar to her name, Hurston rose to become one of the central figures of the Harlem Renaissance, only to die in obscurity. Not until the 1970s was she rediscovered by Alice Walker and other admirers. Although Hurston has entered the pantheon as one of the most influential American writers of the 20th century, the true nature of her personality has proven elusive. Now, a brilliant, complicated and utterly arresting woman emerges from this landmark book. Carla Kaplan, a noted Hurston scholar, has found hundreds of revealing, previously unpublished letters for this definitive collection; she also provides extensive and illuminating commentary on Hurston’s life and work, as well as an annotated glossary of the organizations and personalities that were important to it. From her enrollment at Baltimore’s Morgan Academy in 1917, to correspondence with Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Langston Hughes, Dorothy West and Alain Locke, to a final query letter to her publishers in 1959, Hurston’s spirited correspondence offers an invaluable portrait of a remarkable, irrepressible talent.

Letters from Langston

Letters from Langston
Title Letters from Langston PDF eBook
Author Langston Hughes
Publisher Univ of California Press
Pages 436
Release 2016-02
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0520285344

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Langston Hughes, one of America's greatest writers, was an innovator of jazz poetry and a leader of the Harlem Renaissance whose poems and plays resonate widely today. Accessible, personal, and inspirational, Hughes’s poems portray the African American community in struggle in the context of a turbulent modern United States and a rising black freedom movement. This indispensable volume of letters between Hughes and four leftist confidants sheds vivid light on his life and politics. Letters from Langston begins in 1930 and ends shortly before his death in 1967, providing a window into a unique, self-created world where Hughes lived at ease. This distinctive volume collects the stories of Hughes and his friends in an era of uncertainty and reveals their visions of an idealized world—one without hunger, war, racism, and class oppression.

Z Is for Zora

Z Is for Zora
Title Z Is for Zora PDF eBook
Author Tamara Pizzoli
Publisher
Pages 36
Release 2018-06-04
Genre Authors
ISBN 9780997686043

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Z is for Zora: An Alphabet Book of Notable Writers from Around the World offers readers the possibility to explore and learn more about the who's who of literary excellence. Each letter of the alphabet is devoted to a writer who has contributed a great deal to literature arts, and a glossary with a brief description about each author can be found at the end of the book.

Zora!

Zora!
Title Zora! PDF eBook
Author Dennis Brindell Fradin
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages 197
Release 2012-08-28
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 0547534159

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Zora Neale Hurston was confident, charismatic, and determined to be extraordinary. As a young woman, Hurston lived and wrote alongside such prominent authors as Langston Hughes and Alain Locke during the Harlem Renaissance. But unfortunately, despite writing the luminary work Their Eyes Were Watching God, she was always short of money. Though she took odd jobs as a housemaid and as the personal assistant to an actress, Zora often found herself in abject poverty. Through it all, Zora kept writing. And though none of her books sold more than a thousand copies while she was alive, she was rediscovered a decade later by a new generation of readers, who knew they had found an important voice of American Literature.

Wrapped in Rainbows

Wrapped in Rainbows
Title Wrapped in Rainbows PDF eBook
Author Valerie Boyd
Publisher Simon and Schuster
Pages 546
Release 2003
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 0684842300

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Traces the career of the influential African-American writer, citing the historical backdrop of her life and work while considering her relationships with and influences on top literary, intellectual, and artistic figures.

Zora!

Zora!
Title Zora! PDF eBook
Author Judith Bloom Fradin
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages 197
Release 2012
Genre Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN 0547006950

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A biography of African American author Zora Neale Hurston.