Zora and Langston : a story of friendship and betrayal

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Zora and Langston : a story of friendship and betrayal

Title remainder

a story of friendship and betrayal

Statement of responsibility

Yuval Taylor

Creator

• Taylor, Yuval,
• Taylor, Yuval,

Author

• Taylor, Yuval,
• Taylor, Yuval,

Subject

• Biographies
• Biographies
• Biography
• Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967
• Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967
• 1900-1999
• Hurston, Zora Neale
• Hurston, Zora Neale
• Hurston, Zora Neale
• Hughes, Langston, 1902-1967
• African American authors
• African American authors -- 20th century -- Biography
• African American authors -- 20th century -- Biography

Genre

• Biography
• Biographies

Language

eng

Summary

"They were best friends. They were collaborators, literary gadflies, and champions of the common people. They were the leading lights of the Harlem Renaissance. Zora Neale Hurston, the author of Their Eyes Were Watching God, and Langston Hughes, the author of 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers' and 'Let America Be America Again,' first met in 1925, at a great gathering of black and white literati, and they fascinated each other. They traveled together in Hurston's dilapidated car through the rural South collecting folklore, worked on the play Mule Bone, and wrote scores of loving letters. They even had the same patron: Charlotte Osgood Mason, a wealthy white woman who insisted on being called 'Godmother.' Paying them lavishly while trying to control their work, Mason may have been the spark for their bitter and passionate falling-out. Was the split inevitable when Hughes decided to be financially independent of his patron? Was Hurston jealous of the young woman employed as their typist? Or was the rupture over the authorship of Mule Bone? Yuval Taylor answers these questions while illuminating Hurston's and Hughes's lives, work, competitiveness, and ambition, uncovering little-known details. [This book] is the dramatic and moving story of one of the most influential friendships in literature."--Dust jacket

Biography type

collective biography

Cataloging source

LBSOR/DLC

Illustrations

• illustrations
• plates

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography