Zora Neale Hurston: "I've Been in Sorrow's Kitchen"
- ISBN-10
- 0766025365
- ISBN-13
- 9780766025363
- Series
- Zora Neale Hurston
- Category
- Juvenile Nonfiction
- Pages
- 128
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007-01-01
- Publisher
- Enslow Publishers, Inc.
- Author
- Laura Baskes Litwin
Description
Traces the life of the Harlem Renaissance writer and folklorist, who worked to preserve the rich storytelling tradition of African-Americans in the South.
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