Week Four writer-in-residence Valerie Boyd to talk literary kinship, Alice Walker and Zora Neale Hurston by Emma Francois on July 19, 2018 share Alice Walker was 29 when she trekked through Florida in search of Zora Neale Hurston’s unmarked grave. The year was 1973. With her own money, Walker placed a grave marker with Hurston’s name on it
