Letters from Zora: In her own words
“I was able to conjure my own self,” says Black American writer Zora Neale Hurston through a gauzy mist of mysticism and time, in the characterization currently on view (but hurry!) at the Pasadena Playhouse.
Hurston (1891-1960), folklorist and author of several volumes of fiction and anthropological works, as well as an autobiography, was a celebrated, if controversial figure in the Harlem Renaissance world of the 1920s and ’30s, who, like many others from that era, “went missing” in subsequent decades. Her rediscovery can be attributed to novelist Alice Walker, whose Ms. Magazine March 1975 article “In Search of Zora Neale Hurston” re-established her as a feminist lioness…Read Full Review
