The Gilded Six-Bits Summary
Zora Neale Hurston

The Gilded Six-Bits Summary

Zora Neale Hurston's "The Gilded Six-Bits" was published in Story magazine in 1933, when Hurston was a relative newcomer on the literary scene. The well-known publisher Bertram Lippincott read the story and liked it so much that he wrote to Hurston and asked if she was working on a novel. She wasn't, but, eager for a book deal, she told him that she was, and, three months later, presented him with the manuscript of...

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