You Think You're Waiting A Long Time To Publish? This Zora Neale Hurston Book Took Ninety Years To Get To Print

She first tried to publish the novel in 1931, but its genesis was earlier. "Hurston began researching Barracoon in 1927, when she first interviewed the former slave Kossola (later named Cudjo Lewis) on an assignment from the famed anthropologist Dr. Franz Boas."

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