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Valerie Boyd


Born
in Atlanta, Georgia, The United States
December 10, 1963

Died
February 12, 2022

Genre
Nonfiction


Valerie Boyd was the author of Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston and Spirits in the Dark: The Untold Story of Black Women in Hollywood.

She was an associate professor and the Charlayne Hunter-Gault Distinguished Writer in Residence at the Grady College of Journalism at the University of Georgia, where she taught magazine writing, arts reviewing and narrative nonfiction. She also taught creative nonfiction in the graduate writing program at Antioch University in Los Angeles.

Boyd earned a bachelor’s degree from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in 1985 and an MFA in Creative Nonfiction Writing from Goucher College in 1999.

Boyd was an arts editor at The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and she was publish ...more

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Wrapped in Rainbows: The Li...
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“True, I played, fought and studied with other children, but always I stood apart within. … A cosmic loneliness was my shadow.”
― Valerie Boyd, Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston
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“She also managed to win a citywide spelling bee, beating out students at all the other Negro schools in Jacksonville. “I received an atlas of the world and a Bible as prizes,” she recalled, “besides so much lemonade and cake that I told President Collier that I could feel it coming through my skin. He had such a big laugh that I made up my mind to hurry up and get grown and marry him.” Decades”
― Valerie Boyd, Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston
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“The one who makes the idols never worships them, however tenderly he might have molded the clay.”
― Valerie Boyd, Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston
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