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I Love Myself When I Am Laughing
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ALICE WALKER is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and essayist.

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I Love Myself When I Am Laughing

A Zora Neale Hurston Reader
Edited by Alice Walker

Introduction by Mary Helen Washington

In her time, Hurston was praised for her writing and condemned for her independence and audacity. Today she is acknowledged for her pivotal role in the tradition of African American women’s writing. This unique anthology draws together fourteen superb selections from her essays, short stories, journalism, folklore, and autobiography, including excerpts from Dust Tracks on the Road, Mules and Men, Their Eyes Were Watching God, and other now-classic works. The original commentary by Alice Walker and Mary Helen Washington provides illuminating insights into Hurston, as well as into American social and cultural history.

"One of the greatest writers of our time."

—Toni Morrison

"This well-made collection of her work . . . should give momentum to the rediscovery of Hurston as 'the intellectual and spiritual foremother of a generation of black women writers.'"

—Washington Post Book Review