Zora Neale Hurston’s “The Gilded Six Bits” is a short story that was published in 1933, when she was a relative newcomer on the literary scene. The story goes that a well-known publisher named Bertram Lippincott read the "The Gilded Six Bits" and was so impressed by it that it led to Hurston getting a book deal, and her first novel, "Jonah’s Gourd Vine." Of course it was the publication of her second novel, "Their Eyes Were Watching God," in 1937, that brought her great success and a lasting legacy. Though it was pivotal to her career, “The Gilded Six Bits” was not reprinted until renewed scholarly interest in Hurston led to the publication of a...
- 3/25/2016
- by Tambay A. Obenson
- ShadowAndAct
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