Crossing the Creek: The Literary Friendship of Zora Neale Hurston and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

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Contents Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 1. “Friendship is a mysterious and ocean-bottom thing”: The Hurston-Rawlings Friendship 14 2. “Thinking in heirogliphics”: Mastering the Craft of Writing 42 3. Looking Back: Hurston’s Dust Tracks on a Road and Rawlings’s Cross Creek 115 4. The Road Ahead: Hurston’s and Rawlings’s Last Works 158 Afterword 183 Works Cited 187 Index 193 ...