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Lies and Other Tall Tales

Lies and Other Tall Tales( )
Author: Hurston, Zora Neale
Thomas, Joyce Carol
Illustrator: Myers, Christopher
ISBN:978-0-06-000655-6
Publication Date:Apr 2006
Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:AUD $30.99
Book Description:

LIES AND OTHER TALL TALES

These tales are so tall they touch the sky! From Caldecott Honor artist Christopher Myers and Zora Neale Hurston.

While traveling in the Gulf States in the 1930s, Zora Neale Hurston collected and recorded some real whoppers told by folks from all walks of life. Not "dog ate my homework" kind of lies, but tales so wild you didn't ever want to hear the truth. And now today's picture-book readers can enjoy these far-fetched fibs, with Caldecott...
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Book Details
Pages:40
Detailed Subjects: Juvenile Fiction / Fairy Tales & Folklore / Country & Cultural
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):20.32 x 27.305 x 0.635 cm
Book Weight:0.382 Kilograms
Author Biography
Hurston, Zora Neale (Author)
Zora Neale Hurston was born in 1901 in Eatonville, Fla. She left home at the age of 17, finished high school in Baltimore, and went on to study at Howard University, Barnard College, and Columbia University before becoming one of the most prolific writers in the Harlem Renaissance.

Her works included novels, essays, plays, and studies in folklore and anthropology. Her most productive years were the 1930s and early 1940s. It was during those years that she wrote her autobiography Dust Tracks on a Road, worked with the Federal Writers Project in Florida, received a Guggenheim fellowship, and wrote four novels. She is most remembered for her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937. In 2018, her previously unpublished work, Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo, was published.

She died penniless and in obscurity in 1960 and was buried in an unmarked grave. In 1973, her grave was rediscovered and marked and her novels and autobiography have since been reprinted.

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