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  <name><![CDATA[Zora Neale Hurston]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[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 &lt;i&gt;Fire!!&lt;/i&gt; 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 &lt;i&gt;Mules and Men&lt;/i&gt; along with fiction &lt;i&gt;Their Eyes Were Watching God&lt;/i&gt; 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 conduct research on conjure in 1937. Her work was significant because she was able to break into the secret societies and expose their use of drugs to create the Vodun trance, also a subject of study for fellow dancer/anthropologist Katherine Dunham who was then at the University of Chicago.

In 1954 Hurston was unable to sell her fiction but was assigned by the &lt;i&gt;Pittsburgh Courier&lt;/i&gt; to cover the small-town murder trial of Ruby McCollum, the prosperous black wife of the local lottery racketeer, who had killed a racist white doctor. Hurston also contributed to &lt;i&gt;Woman in the Suwanee County Jail&lt;/i&gt;, a book by journalist and civil rights advocate William Bradford Huie. ]]></about>    <gender>female</gender>  <hometown>Notasulga, Alabama</hometown>  <born_at>12/13/1901</born_at>  <died_at>01/28/1960</died_at>  
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Their Eyes Were Watching God]]></title>
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  <published>1937</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Mules and Men]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Zora Neale Hurston]]></name>
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  <published>1978</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Dust Tracks on a Road: An Autobiography]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Zora Neale Hurston]]></name>
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      <name><![CDATA[Maya Angelou]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.95</average_rating>
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  <published>1984</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Tell My Horse : Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Zora Neale Hurston]]></name>
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  <published>1981</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Jonah's Gourd Vine]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Zora Neale Hurston]]></name>
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  <published>1990</published>  
  
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        <book id="84031">
  <title><![CDATA[I Love Myself When I Am Laughing... And Then Again: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Zora Neale Hurston]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.28</average_rating>
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  <published>1979</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Moses Man of the Mountain]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Zora Neale Hurston]]></name>
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  <published>1984</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Seraph on the Suwanee]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Zora Neale Hurston]]></name>
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  <published>1991</published>  
  
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        <book id="38068">
  <title><![CDATA[The Complete Stories]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Zora Neale Hurston]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.18</average_rating>
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  <published>1995</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Zora Neale Hurston : Novels and Stories : Jonah's Gourd Vine / Their Eyes Were Watching God / Moses, Man of the Mountain / Seraph on the Suwanee / Selected Stories]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Zora Neale Hurston]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.21</average_rating>
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  <published>1995</published>  
  
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