Zora and Langston: A Story of Friendship and Betrayal

A Finalist for the 2019ÊLos Angeles Times Book Prize in Biography

ÒA complete pleasure to read.Ó _Lisa Page, Washington Post

Novelist Zora Neale Hurston and poet Langston Hughes, two of AmericaÕs greatest writers, first met in New York City in 1925. Drawn to each other, they helped launch a radical journal, Fire!! Later, meeting by accident in Alabama, they became close as they traveled together_Hurston interviewing African Americans for folk stories, Hughes getting his first taste of the deep South. By illuminating their lives, work, competitiveness, and ambitions, Yuval Taylor savvily details how their friendship and literary collaborations dead-ended in acrimonious accusations.

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