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Zora Neale Hurston

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Zora Neale Hurston


Born
in Notasulga, Alabama, The United States
January 07, 1891

Died
January 28, 1960

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Novels, including Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), and nonfiction writings of American folklorist Zora Neale Hurston give detailed accounts of African American life in the South.

In 1925, Hurston, one of the leaders of the literary renaissance, happening in Harlem, produced the short-lived literary magazine Fire!! alongside Langston Hughes and Wallace Thurman shortly before she entered Barnard College. This literary movement developed into the Harlem renaissance.

Hurston applied her Barnard ethnographic training to document African American folklore in her critically acclaimed book Mules and Men alongside fiction Their Eyes Were Watching God . She also assembled a folk-based performance dance group that recreated her Southern t
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Their Eyes Were Watching God

3.98 avg rating — 333,098 ratings — published 1937 — 544 editions
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Dust Tracks on a Road

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Mules and Men

4.10 avg rating — 5,910 ratings — published 1935 — 62 editions
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Hitting a Straight Lick wit...

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I Love Myself When I Am Lau...

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Tell My Horse: Voodoo and L...

3.98 avg rating — 2,246 ratings — published 1938 — 35 editions
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Jonah's Gourd Vine

3.98 avg rating — 2,142 ratings — published 1934 — 28 editions
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Moses, Man of the Mountain

3.98 avg rating — 1,514 ratings — published 1939 — 20 editions
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“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God

“Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.”
Zora Neale Hurston

“I love myself when I am laughing. . . and then again when I am looking mean and impressive.”
Zora Neale Hurston, I Love Myself When I Am Laughing And Then Again When I Am Looking Mean & Impressive

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