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An intriguing investigation of the famous writer’s turbulent final years
"‘Courage’ is the last word that Zora Neale Hurston wrote in her letters. And Hurston’s courage is what Virginia Lynn Moylan documents in this moving and meticulously researched account of the end of Hurston’s life."--Anna Lillios, author ofCrossing the Creek
"Moylan’s account of Hurston’s last decade contributes to our understanding of a complex artist and individual--one who was pivotal in the creation of the first ‘anthropologically correct’ baby doll and yet opposed court-ordered desegregation."--M. Genevieve West, author ofZora Neale Hurston and American Literary Culture
"Hats off to Virginia Lynn Moylan for filling in missing pieces of Hurston’s life story. This sympathetic biography of Hurston’s last years is both a lively introduction to her life and a must-have book for Hurston fans. . . . Add[s] heft and richness to our understanding of all that Hurston was up against and just how much she achieved, in spite of the odds."--Carla Kaplan, author of Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters
In 1948, false accusations of child molestation all but erased the reputation and career Zora Neale Hurston had worked for decades to build. Sensationalized in the profit-seeking press and relentlessly pursued by a prosecution more interested in a personal crusade than justice, the morals charge brought against her nearly drove her to suicide.
But she lived on. She lived on past her accuser’s admission that he had fabricated his whole story. She lived on for another twelve years, during which time she participated in some of the most remarkable events, movements, and projects of the day.
Since her death, scholars and the public have rediscovered Hurston’s work and conscientiously researched her biography. Nevertheless, the last decade of her life has remained relatively unexplored. Virginia Moylan fills in the details--investigating subjects as varied as Hurston’s reporting on the trial of Ruby McCollum (a black woman convicted of murdering her white lover), her participation in designing an "anthropologically correct" black baby doll to combat stereotypes, her impassioned and radical biography of King Herod, and her controversial objections to court-ordered desegregation.
Virginia Lynn Moylan, educator and independent scholar, is a founding member of the Fort Pierce, Florida, Annual Zora Festival and a contributing author to The Inside Light: New Critical Essays on Zora Neale Hurston.
- Sales Rank: #1707740 in Books
- Brand: Brand: University Press of Florida
- Published on: 2011-04-03
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.10" h x .80" w x 6.10" l, .92 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 144 pages
- Used Book in Good Condition
From Publishers Weekly
Moylan's goal—"to freshly interpret" Zora Neale Hurston's tumultuous final decade, rocked by scandal and the author's controversial political views—is ill-met by this well-intentioned but clunky biography. Moylan, founding member of the Fort Pierce, Fla., Annual Zora Festival, draws heavily on two texts (Valerie Boyd's biography Wrapped in Rainbows, and Carla Kaplan's edition of Hurston's letters, Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters), supplemented by a number of interviews with the employers, acquaintances, and friends of Hurston's last decade. After a brief biographical sketch of Hurston's early years, Moylan addresses, in term-paperish prose, the false child molestation charges that, even after they were recanted, left Hurston's reputation in tatters, and her very controversial (in Moylan's words, "eccentric") objections to Brown v. Board of Education and desegregation on the grounds that, in her perspective, "racial uplift" would come by individual effort alone. Hurston's final creative projects—her development of an "anthropologically correct" black baby doll and planned biography of King Herod attest to how the famously idiosyncratic and iconoclastic writer remained deeply unpredictable and fascinating, and that her "lost years" merit a thoughtful and thorough biography. Unfortunately, this meandering, amateurish account isn't it. (Mar.)
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REVIEW. First published March 1, 2011 (Booklist).
In 1948, Hurston’s promising though iconoclastic career was nearly ruined by false accusations of child molestation. Sensationalized reporting by some in the black press added to a despair that drove Hurston nearly to suicide. But she returned to Florida, the setting of many of her works and a place of respite, where she continued to write for the next 12 years. Hurston also stirred up controversy by opposing the Brown decision and forced desegregation and developing friendships with politicians disfavored by civil rights veterans. Estranged from the black establishment, she nonetheless worked for racial justice, covering the trial of a black woman in Florida charged with the murder of her white lover, a prominent doctor. Hurston struggled with illness and penury before dying in a nursing home at 69, with her books out of print. Moylan interviewed Hurston’s friends and neighbors and drew on archival material, including never-before-published letters, to offer this look at the final decade in the life of a woman who was a writer, an anthropologist, and a folklorist unafraid to challenge conventions. — Vanessa Bush
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"With a cover designed to resemble the Harper Perennial editions of Hurston's fiction, this book embodies the affirmative spirit of its subject. This is so even though Moylan (independent scholar) is chronicling Hurston's last, difficult decade, in which she was unemployed, her works were out of print, and her solidarity with the African American community was diminished by her dislike of the Supreme Court's desegregation ruling. Despite some mistakes (e.g., the right-wing Florida senator Hurston supported was Spessard Holland, not "Spencer"), Moylan proves a reliable, informative guide. The reader learns about unfinished projects like the picaresque "The Lives of Barney Turk." She provides a crucial, deft analysis of Hurston's unpublished novel on King Herod the Great, in which Hurston attempted both an anticommunist allegory and a revision of normative biblical history. And Moylan gives a judicious account of Hurston's attitude toward desegregation, writing that Hurston feared it would rob "black children of traditions that contributed to their individual and cultural identities." Hurston got it wrong, but few people got both anticommunism and antiracism right in that era. Moylan shows that however uncomfortable one might feel with Hurston's later years, they are an integral part of this great American writer's story. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division" --Choice
undergraduates and above. N. Birns The New School
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In These Times, Culture, April 2011 by Eve Ottenberg
For Zora Neale Hurston the 1950s were years in which she struggled to survive. The story of her last 10 years might sound like a gloomy tale, but in Moylan's Zora Neale Hurston's Final Decade (University of Florida) this is not at all the case. . . . Since her death, Hurston's reputation has received two major rehabilitations. The first was a 1975 Alice Walker essay in Ms. magazine, "In Search of Zora Neale Hurston," and the second the 2005 TV version of Their Eyes Were Watching God, produced by Oprah Winfrey and starring Halle Berry. Now that Hurston's place in the pantheon of American writers is secure, it is unsettling to see her in Zora Neale Hurston's Final Decade, going hat-in-hand to publishers and employers at an age when she should have been enjoying her retirement and resting on her laurels. Moylan, an educator and independent scholar, observes that universities all over the world had her books in their syllabi, yet none offered her a teaching position. So she became a substitute teacher at a local high school in Florida, wrote freelance articles for newspapers that paid sporatically and moved frequently due to poverty.
. . . As Moylan points out, Hurston was a devotee of the meritocratic philosophy of Booker T. Washington. Hurston wanted her people to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps. Hurston was also a contrarian politically. She vocally opposed school desegregation and, as Moylan writes, "blamed the NAACP, President Dwight D. Eisenhower and the Brown decision for what she perceived as the 'hate-filled, stinking mess' in which southern blacks and whites found themselves."
Yet years earlier, in 1945, Moylan writes that Hurston criticized American foreign policy for supporting "democracy abroad while 'subjugating the dark world completely' through its sanctioning of Jim Crow at home." . . . Moylan argues that regarding education, Hurston was a black separatist, and devotes pages to defending Hurston's diatribes against Brown v The board of Education. Though at first it may seem jarring, this is in fact one of the most nuanced sections of this much-needed book, one that illuminates the last, nearly destitute years of a great writer's life, years previously cloaked in obscurity.
Eve Ottenberg has written book reviews for the New York Times, Vanity Fair, The Washington Post and many other newspaers and magazines.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
The Sunset Years of a a Great Writer's Life
By John W. Lowe
Virginia Lynn Moylan has performed an invaluable service in her study of Hurston's last ten years. Her account builds on archival research, interviews with people who knew Hurston, and intense exploration of the places Hurston lived in and wrote about. We now know much more about her political stances, her take on the Ruby McCollom trial, her often contentious relations with her employers, and her many warm and varied friendships with Floridians of all kinds, from the celebrated writer Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings to the inhabitants of the institution for the poor where Hurston died. Along the way, Moylan revisits the last publications, Hurston's unfinished manuscripts - including her last novel, HEROD THE GREAT - and the unrealized plans for future projects. Moylan's work richly complements the considerable contributions of the earlier biographers Hemenway, Boyd, and Plant; no Zoraphile can do without this book.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Excellent read by exception author on an excellent author, Zora Neale Hurston
By C. DUPONT
When I read a new author, in this case, Their Eyes Were Watching God, I always want to know about the author and always read a short bio before, during or after reading the book they wrote.
Hurston's name was very familiar because I knew she lived and had a strong connection to St. Augustine. I, too, read it and gave it five stars. Reading the book drew me to find out more about Hurston and her connection to St. Augustine.
Hurston was nationally known as a folklorist, anthropologist and author. She was an outspoken pubic figure who never shied away from controversy.
The early part of her life promised a fulfilling life of writing and travel, however according to what I had read, that was not the case. After reading a short bio there was a reference to a molestation charge while she was living in Harlem and that she died in abject poverty in a welfare home.
When I came across this excellent book by Virginia Lynn Moylan it seemed the ideal read for my curious nature as to the last years of Zora Neal Hurston.
The book written by a Florida author Moylan, proved to be much more than I expected. There were many more references to St. Augustine and the author even acknowledged to my surprise, local folks, some of which I've known all my life.
Hurston was also very good friends with Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings who lived in St. Augustine (and Cross Creek and Crescent Beach as well) with her husband Norton Baskin, a hotelier who owned Castle Warden Hotel (built in the 1880's by an employee of Henry Flagler) and is now Ripley's Believe It or Not! Museum. Hurston stayed with the Rawlings at the hotel and corresponded for years with Rawlings.
The introduction gives of this excellent book gives a biographical sketch of Hurston from her birth in 1891 in Alabama to 1948. While she was born in Alabama, throughout her life she claimed to be born in Eatonville, Florida, where she spent her early years. Eatonville is known as the first black incorporated town in America. And no surprise about where she said she was born; throughout her life she was known to take 10 years off her true age.
Hurston's career was damaged somewhat by the accusation of molestation which appears to have been a `set-up' by her detractors. Why detractors though? Huston was her own woman with her own opinions and did not back down from them regardless of the amount of pressure she endured from other black writers and leaders, namely her peers.
She was a segregationist with a "separate but equal" opinion of the integration of schools. Her opinion which she stated freely did not make many friends in the black community. But as an anthropologist, she felt strongly about preservation of black culture and black linguistics.
Hurston wrote in an African-American dialect, too, which did not endear her to her peers and colleagues at the time.
She moved around Florida quite a bit during those last 10 years of her life, many times for employment opportunities such as working at newspapers and as a librarian. She moved one time because of a benefactor.
Writing was always her love and at the time it was most difficult to get her work published other than magazine articles which didn't pay much, of course as most writers know.
This is an excellent book on Zora Neale Hurston and specifically her last decade. It's skillfully written by author Virginia Lynn Moylan who obviously admires Hurston's talent and her struggle to live her life "on her own terms." That seems like a trite term to use but it is an accurate term to describe the life of Hurston. She would not take anything less than living her life, her way not buckling any to make her life easier. Hurston was a very proud woman. And Hurston would approve heartedly with Moylan's exceptional book.
Here is a five minute biographical sketch which I found on You Tube.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
A Look at Zora's Final Days
By B. B. News
Lynn Moylan, the author of "Zora Neale Hurston's Final Decade", conducts her work with stellar scholarship and a heart full of admiration for the author who spent her last years in and around Ft. Pierce, Florida, where Moylan lives. Placing Zora Neale Hurston within the small Florida communities where she resided until her death - Belle Glade (1950-51), Eau Gallie (1951-1956) and Ft. Pierce (1956-1960) - is no small feat. There is scant information from this period and few people alive today to tell that story, more than fifty years after Hurston's death. Moylan launches her look at this last decade with a short encapsulated chapter of Hurston's life up to that time, then proceeds to detail Zora's interesting relationship with the Creech family of West Palm Beach, a relationship that resulted in the manufacturing of the nation's first "anthropologically-correct black doll". The project was a personal one for Zora's friend Sara Creech, yet more interesting to me are Creech's stories about Hurston's time spent with this white family, happily painting their house with them, dining in their kitchen, discussing race relations and biblical history. That sub-text of the importance to Zora of her everyday life follows through the rest of the book, with Zora putting on her game face about her condition, described as seemingly fine, though we now know things weren't fine and Zora Neale Hurston was on a downward spiral that would result in a diminished life, living near poverty and in ill health, alienated from her own family and separated by 2,000 miles from her friends in the Harlem Renaissance, relying on the kindness of strangers moved by her largesse as a former author and anthropologist. Throughout the book, Moylan captures the last decade and days of a great woman whose pride keeps her from becoming a victim, and instead is now commemorated for her spunk and determination, an example for any woman who has ever struggled in a professional capacity in this male-dominated world. Alas, I enjoyed the book but wish someone could get to the bottom of what the Peek Funeral Home of Ft. Pierce did with the money donated by her publishers for Zora's headstone, and why, with so many people attending the authors' funeral, as noted by Moylan, no one was able to state which grave at the Garden of Heavenly Rest was indeed Zora's. Was no one graveside at the ceremony? Instead we are left with a single grave picked as Zora's by author Alice Walker, who relied on the softness of her own footstep in the sand as a sign from the author. Though this cryptic message is the sort of thing Zora would surely have sent (her clairvoyance was the subject of a study by Columbia University according to a family friend), Zora Neale Hurston deserved better from that funeral home, as evidenced by the interest in her life from author Lynn Moylan and countless others who have sought to define Hurston's incredible life in words, letters, and film (see my film Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun).
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