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The author and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston was one of the leading figures of the Harlem Renaissance, but she had a falling-out with another writer associated with the movement. Who was it?
- A Nella Larsen
- B Dorothy West
- C Jean Toomer
- D Langston Hughes
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From Zinzi Clemmons’s 2019 review of “Zora and Langston: A Story of Friendship and Betrayal,” by Yuval Taylor:
That final line encapsulates Taylor’s ambitious project. The dramatic fallout between Hurston and Hughes, triggered by their collaboration on the ill-fated and controversial play “Mule Bone,” has been fetishized in literary circles for its dramatic nature. Stories of their heated fights, rumors of a love triangle involving their typist, Louise Thompson, and the involvement of lawyers have all made the rounds.
