How Zora Neale Hurston’s posthumous novel was rescued from a fire and published

MICHEL MARTIN, HOST:

Other than a handful of scholars, the world had not seen Zora Neale Hurston’s final novel until now. The writer and anthropologist was working on “The Life Of Herod The Great” when she died in Florida in 1960 at the age of 69.

DEBORAH PLANT: She never managed to get it published. The manuscript was left in her trunk after she died…

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