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ZORA AND LANGSTON: A Story of Friendship and Betrayal by Yuval Taylor (W.W. Norton, March 2019)

Chicago Tribune Interviews Yuval Taylor about ZORA AND LANGSTON: A Story of Friendship and Betrayal

Tribune Books Editor Jennifer Day interviews the author about writing the book and how being white helped, hindered, and influenced his work

ZORA AND LANGSTON: A Story of Friendship and Betrayal by Yuval Taylor (W.W. Norton, March 2019)

Washington Post Reviews ZORA AND LANGSTON by Yuval Taylor

Lisa Page writes that the book is “… a complete pleasure to read.”

ZORA AND LANGSTON: A Story of Friendship and Betrayal by Yuval Taylor (W.W. Norton, March 2019)

The Undefeated Looks at the Beef in ZORA AND LANGSTON by Yuval Taylor

“… it’s hard to read about Hurston and Hughes’ conflict without thinking about other examples of cultural beef, from hip-hop to sports.”

Publishers Weekly Reviews ZORA AND LANGSTON: A Story of Friendship and Betrayal by Yuval Taylor

“…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.'”

Kirkus Reviews ZORA AND LANGSTON: A Story of Friendship and Betrayal by Yuval Taylor

“Taylor creates a perceptive portrait of the bizarre patron and of the Hurston-Hughes friendship. A fresh look at two important writers of the 1920s.”

ZORA AND LANGSTON: A Story of Friendship and Betrayal by Yuval Taylor (W.W. Norton, March 2019)

Atlanta Journal-Constitution Reviews ZORA AND LANGSTON by Yuval Taylor

“…a fascinating and lively story of two iconoclastic writers…”

Carla Kaplan Praises ZORA AND LANGSTON: A Story of Friendship and Betrayal by Yuval Taylor

“Yuval Taylor digs deeply into the existing scholarship on both writers—and their times—to explore this unusual intimacy and the tragedy of its collapse. “

Emily Bernard Praises ZORA AND LANGSTON: A Story of Friendship and Betrayal by Yuval Taylor

“An intriguing story about the most confounding and fascinating literary breakup in African American cultural history. “

Booklist Reviews ZORA AND LANGSTON: A Story of Friendship and Betrayal by Yuval Taylor

“Taylor has created an intimate portrait of two luminaries of American literature against a backdrop of the cultural, political, and economic forces that influenced them.”

Langston Hughes Biographer Arnold Rampersad Praises ZORA AND LANGSTON: A Story of Friendship and Betrayal by Yuval Taylor

“clear, lively, and elegant … this is a dazzling book, easy to read but richly rewarding.”

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