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    Zora Neale Hurston was an influential African American writer and anthropologist during the Harlem Renaissance. She was born in Alabama in 1891 and studied at Howard University. Her most notable work was Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937, which explored the lives of African American women. Though she faced criticism from her peers during her lifetime, Hurston made significant contributions to literature and folklore before dying in poverty with an unmarked grave. Her work was later revived and recognized for its importance by writers like Alice Walker.

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    Zora Neale Hurston was an influential African American writer and anthropologist during the Harlem Renaissance. She was born in Alabama in 1891 and studied at Howard University. Her most notable work was Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937, which explored the lives of African American women. Though she faced criticism from her peers during her lifetime, Hurston made significant contributions to literature and folklore before dying in poverty with an unmarked grave. Her work was later revived and recognized for its importance by writers like Alice Walker.

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    Zora Neale Hurston

    By: Christine, Olman, Dio, Hannah, Nathaniel


    Mr. Watson Period:2
    Who was She?
    Zora Neale Hurston was a writer, an anthropologist, and a

    folklorist who had a significant role during the Harlem

    Renaissance. She also had an interest in play writing. During

    her lifetime, she knew some famous people such as Langston

    Hughes, Ethel Waters, and W.E.B. Du Bois, whom she called

    Bois the “Dean of American Negro Artists.”


    Background Info
    ● Born in Notasulga, Alabama in 1891.
    ● Her family moved to Eatonville, Florida, an all-black
    community.
    ● Worked as a waitress.
    ● Attended Morgan Academy; where she completed her
    high school studies.
    ● Erased 10 years of her life in order to finish high school.
    ● Attended Howard University and received an associate
    degree in 1920.
    ● In 1928, she had graduated from Barnard College.
    ● She majored in anthropology.
    Influences During the Harlem
    Renaissance
    Hurston’s novels and folklores had a great influence during

    the Harlem Renaissance. However she was considered

    controversial due to her arrogant and quick-tempered

    personality. She ended up receiving a lot of criticism by just

    her male peers.


    Video:

    Video by Biography
    URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3hqXO3pIrk
    List of Her Written Works Some examples are…
    ● “How it Feels to be Colored”
    -1928
    ● “Mules and Men” - 1935
    ● “Dust Tracks on a Road” -
    1947
    ● “Their Eyes Were Watching”
    - 1937 (Her best-known
    novel)
    ● “Zora Neale Hurston: A Life
    in Letters” - 1996
    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    ● It was considered her most notable work.
    ● It was adapted into a movie.
    ● Richard Wright, an author, thought that her
    novel wasn’t political enough.
    ● Alice Walker sees her novel as an
    empowerment reading; she even wrote a
    poem about it.
    Her Awards
    ● A second-place fiction prize for her short story called
    “Spunk.”
    ● Second-place award in drama for her play called Color
    Struck.
    ● Two honorable mentions.
    ● Received the “Bethune-Cookman College Award for
    Education and Human Relations” in 1956.
    ● Etc...
    Her legacy
    Zora Neale Hurston died poor and forgotten; buried in an

    unmarked grave. That is until in 1973, Alice Walker pays for a

    proper tombstone and gives Hurston’s grave its deserved

    epitaph. This helped her work be revived and seen with

    recognition.
    Bibliography
    Boyd, Valerie, “About Zora Neale Hurston,” (n.d.), Zora Neale Hurston, retrieved from
    https://www.zoranealehurston.com/about/

    CrashCourse, “Their Eyes Were Watching God: Crash Course Literature 301,” Youtube, educational video by
    John Green, July 7, 2016, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kF0U8kIMp4

    “Zora Neale Hurston,” Women’s Intellectual Contributions to the Study of Mind and Society, (n.d.), retrieved from
    http://faculty.webster.edu/woolflm/hurston.html

    Thornton, Shana, “Alice Walker and Zora Neale Hurston: A Re-Discovery that Helped Preserve
    African-American Culture,” February 26, 2008, Her Circle, retrieved from
    http://www.hercircleezine.com/2008/02/26/alice-walker-and-zora-neale-hurston-a-re-discovery-that-helpe
    d-preserve-african-american-culture/

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