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Transcript: Interview: Alice Walker discusses her inspiration, the works of Zora Neale Hurston
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BOB EDWARDS
Morning Edition (NPR)
04-26-2004
Interview: Alice Walker discusses her inspiration, the works of Zora Neale Hurston
Host: BOB EDWARDS
Time: 11:00 AM-12:00 Noon
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In 1975, writer Alice Walker wrote an essay about her search for Zora Neale Hurston. The essay helped lift from obscurity the work and life story of the most widely published female author of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1930s. Walker, whose novel "The Color Purple" won the Pulitzer Prize, never met Hurston, but she feels a profound connection to her. As part of Intersections, MORNING EDITION's series on artists and their inspirations, Walker talks with NPR's Verta Mae Grosvenor about Hurston and ...