Valerie Boyd Quote

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

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

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Valerie Boyd (December 11, 1963 – February 12, 2022) was an American writer and academic. She was best known for her biography of Zora Neale Hurston entitled Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston. She was an associate professor and the Charlayne Hunter-Gault Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia, where she taught narrative nonfiction writing, as well as arts and literary journalism.