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Article: Wrapped in Rainbows: the Life of Zora Neale Hurston.(Book Review)
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- Black Issues Book Review
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- January 1, 2003
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2003 Cox, Matthews & Associates. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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by Valerie Boyd Scribner, January 2003 $30.00, ISBN 0-684-84230-0
A misidentified photograph says it all. During the 1980s, as interest in Zora Neale Hurston's life and work began to gather speed, a widely-circulated photograph of a young black woman wearing a wide-brimmed hat and an enormous smile put a face to our fascination. But the face wasn't Hurston's. Even after the photographer himself, famed anthropologist Alan Lomax, notified the Library of Congress of this error in 1993, the image continued to circulate as an authentic Hurston likeness. It still does.
This is only one of the mistakes surrounding Zora Neale Hurston that Valerie Boyd corrects ...