Orem Library

"A biography of African American writer, performer, and activist Maya Angelou, who turned a childhood of trauma and emotional pain to become one of the most inspiring voices of our lifetime. Includes afterword, author's note, and sources"--

They were best friends, collaborators, and champions of the common people; the leading lights of the Harlem Renaissance. Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes first met in 1925, and 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. Their patron, Charlotte Osgood Mason, was a wealthy white woman who paid them lavishly while trying to control...