{"product_id":"zora-and-langston-yuval-taylor-9780393243918","title":"Zora and Langston: A Story of Friendship and Betrayal","description":"\u003cp\u003eThey were best friends. They were collaborators, literary gadflies, and champions of the common people. They were the leading lights of the Harlem Renaissance. Zora Neale Hurston, the author of \u003cem\u003eTheir Eyes Were Watching God\u003c\/em\u003e, and Langston Hughes, the author of \"The Negro Speaks of Rivers\" and \"Let America Be America Again,\" first met in 1925, at a great gathering of black and white literati, and they fascinated each other. They traveled together in Hurston's dilapidated car through the rural South collecting folklore, worked on the play Mule Bone, and wrote scores of loving letters. They even had the same patron: Charlotte Osgood Mason, a wealthy white woman who insisted on being called \"Godmother.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePaying them lavishly while trying to control their work, Mason may have been the spark for their bitter and passionate falling-out. Was the split inevitable when Hughes decided to be financially independent of his patron? Was Hurston jealous of the young woman employed as their typist? Or was the rupture over the authorship of \u003cem\u003eMule Bone\u003c\/em\u003e? Yuval Taylor answers these questions while illuminating Hurston's and Hughes's lives, work, competitiveness, and ambition, uncovering little-known details.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Yuval Taylor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0393243915\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780393243918\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/26\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.40w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2019 pg. 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal Prepub Alert\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/2018 pg. 43\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/10\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/15\/2019 pg. 13","brand":"Yuval Taylor","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43994844070143,"sku":"9780393243918","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d8c79b5c-aa91-4991-b7a0-d082f0040014.jpg?v=1683332505","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/zora-and-langston-yuval-taylor-9780393243918","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}