The first edition has an introduction by Franz Boas
and illustrations by Miguel Covarrubias
. Later editions are provided with introductions by Robert Hemenway
(1978) and Arnold Rampersad
(1990).
Library of Congress Online Catalog. http://catalog.loc.gov/.
Reception
Zora Neale Hurston
The volume was reprinted in London two years later. Larry Neal
provided an introduction in 1971, Robert Hemenway
in 1984, and poet Maya Angelou
in 1991.
Library of Congress Online Catalog. http://catalog.loc.gov/.
Reception
Zora Neale Hurston
This made an early, vital contribution to the regeneration of ZNH
's literary status. In her essay collection In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose (1983), Walker writes movingly about Hurston's life's work, and...
Textual Production
Alice Walker
In 1977 AW
contributed a foreword to Robert Hemenway
's Zora Neale Hurston: A Literary Biography, the first full-length study of Hurston
; she also offered support to its (white) author.
White, Evelyn. Alice Walker. A Life. Norton, 2004.
