When I hear this story, I think of Zora Neale Hurston and how close her archive came to being lost. After she died and was buried in an unmarked grave, an acquaintance and local sheriff’s deputy in St. Lucie County, Fla., saw her belongings burning, a customary way to dispose of the effects of the poor back then. He rescued many of her papers from the fire, saying he remembered she “was somebody.” Mr.
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