When Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston was published in 2002 it was the first comprehensive biographical work on Zora Neale Hurston in more than twenty-five years, and while there were books that followed quickly behind it, Wrapped in Rainbows feels like the definitive work on its subject. I was familiar with Hurston’s life before picking this up – she hangs large in the world of Florida writers – but there was still plenty left for me to know, and nuance and […]
“True, I played, fought and studied with other children, but always I stood apart within… A cosmic loneliness was my shadow.”
Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston by Valerie Boyd