Zora Neale Hurston’s Lost Decade -- In These Times

Since her death, Hurston’s reputation has received two major rehabilitations. The first was a 1975 Alice Walker essay in Ms. magazine, “In Search of Zora Neale Hurston,” and the second the 2005 TV movie version of Their Eyes Were Watching God, produced by Oprah Winfrey and starring Halle Berry. Now that Hurston’s place in the pantheon of American writers is secure, it is unsettling to see her in Zora Neale Hurston’s Final Decade, going hat-in-hand to publishers and employers at an age when she should have been enjoying her retirement and resting on her laurels.

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