Zora Neale Hurston
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born
December 13, 1901
died
January 28, 1960
gender
female
place of birth
Notasulga, Alabama, The United States
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Zora Neale Hurston was an American folklorist and author. In 1925, shortly before entering Barnard College, Hurston became one of the leaders of the literary renaissance happening in Harlem, producing the short-lived literary magazine Fire!! along with Langston Hughes and Wallace Thurman. This literary movement became the center of the Harlem Renaissance.
Hurston applied her Barnard ethnographic training to document African American folklore in her critically acclaimed book Mules and Men along with fiction Their Eyes Were Watching God and dance, assembling a folk-based performance group that recreated her Southern tableau, with one performance on Broadway. Hurston was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to travel to Haiti and conduc...more
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"There are years that ask questions and years that answer."
— Zora Neale Hurston
— Zora Neale Hurston
"Sometimes I feel discriminated against, but it doesn’t make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It’s beyond me."
— Zora Neale Hurston
— Zora Neale Hurston
"There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you."
— Zora Neale Hurston
— Zora Neale Hurston
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