Books like Fire!! by Peter Bagge
Peter Bagge turns the life of African‑American author and folklorist Zora Neale Hurston into a bold, full‑color graphic biography. Beginning as the youngest of eight in a Baptist family in Alabama, Hurston's talent flourished at Howard University and later Barnard College as its only Black student. She arrived in New York during the Harlem Renaissance, where she mingled with Langston Hughes and Wallace Thurman, and emerged as a celebrated novelist and folklorist. Bagge’s comic‑style narrative captures Hurston’s literary achievements—most notably *Their Eyes Were Watching God*—while also detailing the personal tragedies and political shifts that led to her fading from public memory. The result is a lively, artistically rendered portrait of a pioneering African‑American woman writer.
First publish date: 2017
Genre: Biography & Autobiography/Biography
Authors: Peter Bagge
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