Tracking her rise from humble beginnings to acclaimed author and self-made anthropologist, Peter Bagge‘s Fire!!: The Zora Neale Hurston Story charts the life of the Harlem Renaissance’s most famous woman writer, fast-forwarding through her life in bold technicolor to give us the woman, the myth, the legend: Zora Neale Hurston. Continue reading
Hidden away for decades, Rosemary Kennedy has become a symbol for WASP-y secrets, inspiration porn, gender equity, and disability studies. In Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter, Kate Clifford Larson lays out the series of events that led up to her fateful operation and later death, set against the backdrop of American politics and Camelot’s myriad tragedies. Continue reading