Zora Neale Hurston

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·         She was born in Notasulga, Alabama in 1891 and died in 1960.

·         She was raised in Eatonville, Florida, the first all-black town in the United States.

·         Hurston was an American writer, folklorist, and anthropologist.

·         She influenced the writers of the Harlem Renaissance.

·         She went to Howard University, Barnard College, and Columbia University.

·         At Columbia University, she was tutored by the German American anthropologist Franz Boas.

·         She collected folklore in Jamaica, Haiti, Honduras, and Bermuda.

·         She is known for her metaphorical language, her story-telling abilities, and her interest in and celebration of Southern black culture in the United States.

·         Her best-known novel is Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937).

·         Hurston’s writings were rediscovered in the ‘70s by a different generation of black writers, and they were republished.

Works Cited:

"Zora Neale Hurston." Microsoft® Student 2009 [DVD]. Redmond, WA: Microsoft Corporation, 2008. 

http://newsone.com/nation/black-history-month
/news-one-staff/the-storyteller/

https://honors.rit.edu/amitraywiki/index.php/Zora_Neale_Hurston