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2 days ago · Website. zoranealehurston .com. Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891 [1] : 17 [2] : 5 – January 28, 1960) was an American author, anthropologist, folklorist, and documentary filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-20th-century American South and published research on Hoodoo and Caribbean Vodou. [3]
- Cudjoe Lewis
Cudjoe Kazoola Lewis (c. 1841 – July 17, 1935), born Oluale...
- Mules and Men
First edition (publ. Lippincott) Mules and Men is a 1935...
- Cudjoe Lewis
4 days ago · Culture & Life. Books. the week recommends. Best memoirs and biographies to read in 2024. Dive into some of the most compelling life stories – from David Bowie to Keir Starmer. Intimate...
4 days ago · John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972) was an American law-enforcement administrator who served as the final Director of the Bureau of Investigation (BOI) and the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). President Calvin Coolidge first appointed Hoover as director of the BOI, the predecessor to the FBI, in 1924.
3 days ago · 1943–1944. Battles/wars. World War II. Sidney Poitier KBE ( / ˈpwɑːtjeɪ / PWAH-tyay; [1] February 20, 1927 – January 6, 2022) was a Bahamian and American actor, film director, and diplomat. In 1964, he was the first Black actor and first Bahamian to win the Academy Award for Best Actor. [2] He received two competitive Golden Globe ...
5 days ago · Judith Jones, who was Julia Child's cookbook editor, at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Boston on July 14, 2009. (Nancy Lane/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald/Getty Images) In 2007, at the age of 83, the ...
3 days ago · Here are some books by authors who have also engaged in journalism that I admire: Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear, by Elizabeth Gilbert. While Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love deserves all the applause it’s received and she has written many other books, Big Magic is the one I’ve returned to again and again. It explores Gilbert ...
3 days ago · Gallery Books. In a new biography, including interviews from family and friends, Elizabeth Beller gives a personal and in-depth look at the legacy of the late Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, as well as ...
