The Literary Friendship of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Zora Neale Hurston

Lunch and Learn: Crossing the Creek: The Literary Friendship of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and Zora Neale Hurston

Featured Speaker. Author Anna Lillios

Crossing the Creek is the first book to examine the productive and complex relationship between Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings & Zora Neale Hurston. Lunch, learn and chat with the author - Is there truth to the story that Hurston offered to work as Rawlings's maid? In what ways did each write the friendship into their novels? Using interviews with individuals who knew both women, as well as incisive readings of surviving letters, Lillios examines these questions and many others in this remarkable book.
Anna Lillios, associate professor of English at the University of Central Florida, is the editor of the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Journal of Florida Literature. She is the director of the Zora Neale Hurston Electronic Archive as well as executive director and trustee of the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Society.

Tickets are $35 and seating is limited. Included in your ticket price will be a buffet picnic lunch. Drinks, including beer & wine will be available for a small cash donation. Seating is extremely limited, advance ticket purchase is required and tickets are non-refundable.

Individual seats are available as well as entire tables of 8 guests. If you would like to reserve a table larger than 8 people or need any additional information please contact: [email protected]. To request to be seated with specific guests, please email the names of the parties you would like at your table also to [email protected].

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Peña-Peck House - Woman's Exchange, 143 Saint George Street, St. Augustine, United States