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What Professors Are Saying About Live Rich Die Poor

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"Everybody worth anything knows a good bit about our black southern woman heroine, the Eatonville ethnographer who wrote and lived as beautifully as anyone could ask for. But Ann Perry Wallace's Live Rich Die Poor goes beyond the Zora that circulates in Internet quotes or even in our own imaginations. In it, we see through Hurston's interiority, told through Wallace's body and lens, but decidedly Zora's spirit, and learn so much more about our heroine, the woman, the artist, and moreover, our own selves. What does it cost for a black woman artist to be free? Ann Perry Wallace beautifully channels Zora Neale Hurston beyond what we know about her and into her interior life, assessing the costs of living and dying free in America today."
 

Zandria F. Robinson, Ph. D
Associate Professor of Black Studies
Georgetown University