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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 ]
Their Eyes Were Watching God is a 1937 novel by American writer Zora Neale Hurston.It is considered a classic of the Harlem Renaissance, [1] and Hurston's best known work. The novel explores protagonist Janie Crawford's "ripening from a vibrant, but voiceless, teenage girl into a woman with her finger on the trigger of her own destiny".
Jonah's Gourd Vine is Zora Neale Hurston's 1934 debut novel. [1] The novel is a semi-autobiographical novel following John Buddy Pearson and his wife, Lucy. The characters share the same first names as Hurston's parents and make a similar migration from Notasulga, Alabama to Hurston's childhood home, Eatonville, Florida.
Hurston died in 1960, and her work languished in obscurity. In 1975, Alice Walker penned an essay for Ms. Magazine titled “In Search of Zora Neale Hurston,” which revived interest in the ...
In the soon-to-be-published “The Life of Herod the Great,” Zora Neale Hurston reframes one of the Bible’s greatest villains. Over […]
Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" is a non-fiction work by Zora Neale Hurston.It is based on her interviews in 1927 with Oluale Kossola (also known as Cudjoe Lewis) who was presumed to be the last survivor of the Middle Passage.