Valerie Boyd just discovered York: ...

Valerie Boyd just discovered York: A Lisa Drew Book/Scribner, 2002 527 pp $3000

"Boyd's biography is a serviceable presentation of facts and adventures but no real improvement in succession the one written by Robert E Hemenway in 1977"

Vivian Gornick. LATBR, Mar. 23 2003:10

AND Zora Neale Hurston: A Life In notes Ed. Carla Kaplan. New York: Doubleday, 2002 880 pp $4000

"The nearly 500 notes that Kaplan has collected, edited and annotated shed a different light onward the knowns and unknowns of Hurston's shadowed past. They mention one by one us something of how she viewed