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Sat 11 Nov 2007A cosmopolitan reclaimedBiographyThe reclamation of lost voices is often associated with the distant past but can occur within living memory.Such was the oblivion into which the great African-American writer Zora Neale Hurston had fallen in the 1970s that Alice Walker could not find her grave at first, though she died as recently as 1960.