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Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891 [1]: 17 [2]: 5 – January 28, 1960) was an American writer, anthropologist, folklorist, and documentary filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-20th-century American South and published research on Hoodoo and Caribbean Vodou. [3]
Sep 27, 2024 · Zora Neale Hurston was an American folklorist and writer associated with the Harlem Renaissance who celebrated the African American culture of the rural South. Her notable novels include Mules and Men, Their Eyes Were Watching God, and Moses, Man of the Mountain.
Zora Hurston was a world-renowned writer and anthropologist. Hurston’s novels, short stories, and plays often depicted African American life in the South. Her work in anthropology examined Black folklore.
Gamely accepting such offers–and employing her own talent and scrappiness–Hurston became the most successful and most significant black woman writer of the first half of the 20th century.
Apr 2, 2014 · Writer and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston was a fixture of the Harlem Renaissance and author of the masterwork 'Their Eyes Were Watching God.'
May 18, 2018 · Zora Neale Hurston led many lives: novelist, anthropologist, maid, manicurist, voodoo apprentice, counterrevolutionary, trailblazer. In her lifetime, she was dismissed by many of her male...
Hurston the novelist is better known than Hurston the anthropologist. Seen here in 1937, she traveled by car twice from New York Coty to Florida to collect stories from the Black people living in towns near her former hometown, Etonville.
Aug 4, 2008 · Zora Neale Hurston was a woman of many talents. Born in 1891, she earned a BA in anthropology at Barnard College and her work documenting African American culture and folklore in the American ...
Apr 9, 2008 · View a timeline of the life and career of Harlem renaissance writer and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston.
Mar 19, 2013 · The epic tale of Janie Crawford, whose quest for identity takes her on a journey during which she learns what love is, experiences life’s joys and sorrows, and come home to herself in peace. Her passionate story prompted Alice Walker to say, “There is no book more important to me than this one.”
