Hurston landed in New York in 1925 with $1.50 in her pocket and was soon drawn to the black cultural blossoming known as the Harlem Renaissance.
money had a higher value back then in 1925 compared to 2019 due to inflation
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Her words, including Southern folk tales collected by Hurston and read faithfully in dialect the way she had copied them down from her sources, complete with unsparing racial stereotypes of the day, drew occasional groans but mostly easy laughter. Tears, too, for the letters recounting her crushing rebuffs and flirtation with suicide after a hideous libel falsely accused her of child molestation.
introduction, sets up the biography
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Her words, including Southern folk tales collected by Hurston and read faithfully in dialect the way she had copied them down from her sources, complete with unsparing racial stereotypes of the day, drew occasional groans but mostly easy laughter.
The descriptions of her work reminds me of my book love book author, Mark Twain.
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