“This was a major feat, a huge act of love and solidarity, of sisterhood, of soul generosity and shared joy, for which she will be remembered as she will be remembered with immense gratitude for her extraordinary biography ‘Wrapped in Rainbows’ of our revered and irrepressible Medicine Ancestor, Zora Neale Hurston.”īoyd was a native of Atlanta who studied as an undergraduate at Northwestern University and received a master’s degree in creative nonfiction writing from Goucher College. Even though illness was stalking her the past several years, she accompanied me in gathering, transcribing, and editing my journals,” Walker said in a statement issued through Simon & Schuster, “Valerie Boyd was one of the best people ever to live, which she did as a free being.
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