Author: Yuval Taylor
Yuval Taylor’s Zora and Langston is the dramatic and moving story of one of the most influential friendships in literature.
It is a fast-paced, engaging account of the friendship between Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, as well as their eventual “falling out.”
Hurston and Hughes met in New York City and struck up a close friendship. The book offers a detailed look at the complicated fight over the pair’s co-authored play Mule-Bone, which ended their friendship.
It is a “highly readable account of one of the most compelling and consequential relationships in black literary history, and the time is ripe for this story to reach a new generation of readers,” noted Zinzi Clemmons in the New York Times Book Review.
A review in the publishersweekly.com said Taylor “paints a sympathetic but realistic portrait of two complicated artists and convincingly shows that, together, they changed the course of African-American literature, as the first great American writers who implicitly claimed that their work was purely black.”