Lies and Other Tall Tales

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Author:

Hurston, Zora Neale
Thomas, Joyce Carol

Illustrator:

Myers, Christopher

ISBN:

978-0-06-000657-0

Publication Date:

Jan 2015

Publisher:

HarperCollins Publishers

Imprint:

HarperCollins

Book Format:

Paperback

List Price:

USD $7.99

Book Description:

What's the shortest man you ever seen

I seen a man so short he had to get up on a box to look over a grain of sand.

And the fastest

I seen a man run so hard that he lost his feets.

Back in the day, there were liars who could lie so good, you didn't even want to know the truth. And we have Zora Neale Hurston to thank for collecting their stories. In Lies and Other Tall Tales, Caldecott Honor and Coretta Scott King Honor artist Christopher Myers has created...
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Book Details

Pages:	40
Detailed Subjects:	Juvenile Fiction / General Juvenile Fiction / African American & Black
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):	7.917 x 10.608 x 0.195 Inches
Book Weight:	0.374 Pounds

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 In 2018, her previously unpublished work, Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo, was published.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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