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key people in her life. her father John Hurston, her mother died when she was 13 so she had a hard life growing up.

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interesting fact. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-1900s American South and published research on hoodoo. T

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Florida Frontiers | The Lost Years of Zora Neale Hurston | Season 1 | Episode 106

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The Lost Years of Florida writer, folklorist, and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston.

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Zora Neale Hurston (born January 7, 1891, Notasulga, Alabama, U.S.-died January 28, 1960, Fort Pierce, Florida) American folklorist and writer associated with the Harlem Renaissance who celebrated African American culture of the rural South.

Although Hurston claimed to be born in 1901 in Eatonville, Florida, she was, in fact, 10 years older and had moved with her family to Eatonville only as a small child. There, in the first incorporated all-Black town in the country, she attended school until age 13. After the death of her mother (1904), Hurston's home life became increasingly difficult, and at 16 she joined a traveling theatrical company, ending up in New York City during the Harlem Renaissance.

She attended Howard University from 1921 to 1924 and in 1925 won a scholarship to Barnard College, where she studied anthropology under Franz Boas. She graduated from Barnard in 1928 and for two years pursued graduate studies in anthropology at Columbia University. She also conducted field studies in folklore among African Americans in the South. Her trips were funded by folklorist Charlotte Mason, who was a patron to both Hurston and Langston Hughes. For a short time Hurston was an amanuensis to novelist Fannie Hurst.
(Read W.E.B. Du Bois' 1926 Britannica essay on African American literature.)
In 1930 Hurston collaborated with Hughes on a play (never finished) titled Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life in Three Acts (published posthumously 1991). In 1934 she published her first novel, Jonah's Gourd Vine, which was well received by critics for its portrayal of African American life uncluttered by stock figures or sentimentality. Mules and Men, a study of folkways among the African American population of Florida, followed in 1935. Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), a novel, Tell My Horse (1938), a blend of travel writing and anthropology based on her investigations of voodoo ( Vodou) in Haiti, and Moses, Man of the Mountain (1939), a novel, firmly established her as a major author.

For a number of years Hurston was on the faculty of North Carolina College for Negroes (now North Carolina Central University) in Durham. She also was on the staff of the Library of Congress. Dust Tracks on a Road (1942), an autobiography, is highly regarded. Her last book, Seraph on the Suwanee, a novel, appeared in 1948.

Despite her early promise, by the time of her death in 1960 Hurston was little remembered by the general reading public, but there was a resurgence of interest in her work in the late 20th century. In addition to Mule Bone, several other collections of her work were published posthumously; these include Spunk: The Selected Stories (1985), The Complete Stories (1995), and Every Tongue Got to Confess (2001), a collection of folktales from the South. In 1995 the Library of America published a two-volume set of Hurston's work in its series. In addition, Hurston's Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" was released in 2018. Although completed in 1931, this nonfiction work was originally rejected by publishers because of its use of vernacular. It tells the story of Cudjo Lewis, who was believed to be the last survivor of the final ship that brought enslaved Africans to the United States. Ibram X. Kendi adapted several folktales collected by Hurston as books for children in the 2020s.

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Zora Neale Hurston | Biography, Books, Short Stories, & Facts

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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.

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Zora Neale Hurston, (born January 7, 1891, Notasulga, Alabama, U.S.—

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Over a career that spanned more than 30 years, she published four novels, two books of folklore, an autobiography, numerous short stories, and several essays, articles and plays.

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Zora Neale Hurston background of her early life

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Zora Neale Hurston background of her early life

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Zora Neale Hurston was born in Notasulga, Alabama on January 15, 1891. Both her parents had been enslaved. At a young age, her family relocated to Eatonville, Florida where they flourished. Eventually, her father became one of the town's first mayors.