Valerie Boyd (in memoriam)

Valerie Boyd was the author of the critically acclaimed biography Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston, winner of the Southern Book Award and named a Notable Book by the American Library Association. She was the founder and director of the MFA program in narrative nonfiction and the Charlayne Hunter-Gault professor of journalism at the University of Georgia. Boyd was editor-at-large at the University of Georgia Press and senior consulting editor for The Bitter Southerner.