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000436723 1001_ $$aMoylan, Virginia Lynn.
000436723 24510 $$aZora Neale Hurston's final decade /$$cVirginia Lynn Moylan.
000436723 260__ $$aGainesville, FL :$$bUniversity Press of Florida,$$cc2011.
000436723 300__ $$a193 p. :$$bill. ;$$c24 cm
000436723 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000436723 5050_ $$aIntroduction -- Zora Neale Hurston: a biographical sketch, 1891-1948 -- In hell's basement: Harlem, 1948-1949 -- Sunshine and Southern politics: Miami, 1950 -- Sara Creech and her beautiful doll: Belle Glade, 1950-1951 -- Herod the sun-like splendor: Eau Gallie, 1951-1956 -- Death on the Suwannee: Live Oak, 1952-1953 -- Crisis in Dixie: Eau Gallie, 1954-1956 -- Last horizon: Fort Pierce, 1956-1960 -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Select bibliography -- Index.
000436723 520__ $$aFrom Publishers Weekly:  Moylan's goal-"to freshly interpret" Zora Neale Hurston's tumultuous final decade, rocked by scandal and the author's controversial political views-is ill-met by this well-intentioned but clunky biography.  Moylan, founding member of the Fort Pierce, Fla., Annual Zora Festival, draws heavily on two texts (Valerie Boyd's biography  Wrapped in Rainbows, and Carla Kaplan's edition of Hurston's letters, Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters), supplemented by a number of interviews with the employers, acquaintances, and friends of Hurston's last decade.  After a brief biographical sketch of Hurston's early years, Moylan addresses, in term-paperish prose, the false child molestation charges that, even after they were recanted, left Hurston's reputation in tatters, and her very controversial (in Moylan's words, "eccentric") objections to Brown v. Board of Education and desegregation on the grounds that, in her perspective, "racial uplift" would come by individual effort alone.  Hurston's final creative projects-her development of an "anthropologically correct" black baby doll and planned biography of King Herod attest to how the famously idiosyncratic and iconoclastic writer remained deeply unpredictable and fascinating, and that her "lost years" merit a thoughtful and thorough biography.  Unfortunately, this meandering, amateurish account isn't it.
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000436723 650_0 $$aAuthors, American$$y20th century$$vBiography.
000436723 650_0 $$aAfrican American women authors$$vBiography.
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