Book Review: Nina Simmone, Echoes Resound Forever


I’ve always believed that one can never truly appreciate a book unless one understands the  writer's story. For example, we can never really appreciate Hemingway's work unless we know something of his adventurous lifestyle, chronic alcoholism, sporadic depression, complex love life, military interests, and his beloved Finca Vigía.  As well, much of Zora Neale Hurston’s personal life (and struggles), her Eatonville …