<p><strong>The only collaboration between the two brightest lights of the Harlem Renaissance--Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes</strong></p><p>In 1930, two giants of African American literature joined forces to create a lively, insightful, often wildly farcical look inside a rural Southern black community--the three-act play <em>Mule Bone</em>. In this hilarious story, Jim and Dave are a struggling song-and-dance team, and when a woman comes between them, chaos ensues in their tiny Florida hometown. This extraordinary theatrical work broke new ground while triggering a bitter controversy between the collaborators that kept it out of the public eye for sixty years.</p><p>This edition of the rarely seen stage classic features Hurston's original short story, "The Bone of Contention," as well as the complete recounting of the acrimonious literary dispute that prevented <em>Mule Bone</em> from being produced or published until decades after the authors' deaths.</p>