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A Literary Tour of the United States

Summary

Follow the work of anthropologist and novelist Zora Neale Hurston in her travels around Florida, documenting Black culture in both fiction and nonfiction. Trace the Florida connections of writers Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Edith Wharton. Then, witness the uneasy relationship between poet Wallace Stevens and novelist Ernest Hemingway before exploring the presence of noted poets in Key West.

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