Download or read book Zora Neale Hurston's Final Decade written by Virginia Lynn Moylan and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book draws on archival and community census reports, new interviews with Hurston's contemporaries, numerous correspondence, and diligent research to fill in the missing pieces of Hurston's life after she returned to Florida following a false child molestation charge in 1948. Included is a summary of the highlights of Hurston's life and career through 1948, an accounting of the molestation scandal, a fresh and judicious examination and interpretation of her controversial political views, and her involvement with the production of the country's first anthropologically correct black baby doll.