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Fire!! The Zora Neale Hurston Story

by Peter Bagge

Drawn & Quarterly. Feb. 2017. 104p. notes. bibliog. ISBN 9781770462694. $21.95. BIOG

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Meet Zora Neale Hurston: anthropologist who worked with Franz Boas, folklorist and collector of down-home speech and stories with Alan Lomax, novelist (Their Eyes Were Watching God), essayist and playwright, eccentric intellectual, life of the party, and exotic fashionista. Bagge bends manic, rubbery characters around Hurston's chutzpah for a warts-and-roses portrait of this fascinating woman who stirred up controversy in the Harlem Renaissance and beyond. (LJ 4/1/17)

Reviewed by Martha Cornog , Jan 01, 2018

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