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Zora Neale Hurston

Born

in Notasulga, Alabama, The United States

January 07, 1891

Died

January 28, 1960

Website

http://www.zoranealehurston.com/

Genre

Fiction, Poetry, Memoir

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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 conduct research on ...more

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Average rating: 3.98 · 364,252 ratings · 23,169 reviews · 77 distinct works • Similar authors

	Their Eyes Were Watching God 3.96 avg rating — 304,521 ratings — published 1937 — 406 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" 4.01 avg rating — 25,161 ratings — published 2018 — 35 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dust Tracks on a Road 4.11 avg rating — 6,883 ratings — published 1942 — 373 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mules and Men 4.10 avg rating — 5,637 ratings — published 1935 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance by Zora Neale Hurston, M. Genevieve West (editor/introduction), Tayari Jones (Goodreads Author) (foreword) 3.98 avg rating — 3,628 ratings — published 2020 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I Love Myself When I Am Laughing... And Then Again: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader by Zora Neale Hurston, Mary Helen Washington (Introduction), Alice Walker (Editor) 4.43 avg rating — 2,476 ratings — published 1979 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica 3.98 avg rating — 2,096 ratings — published 1938 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Jonah's Gourd Vine 3.99 avg rating — 2,034 ratings — published 1934 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Moses, Man of the Mountain 3.97 avg rating — 1,379 ratings — published 1939 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Complete Stories by Zora Neale Hurston, Henry Louis Gates Jr. (Introduction & Afterword), Sieglinde Lemke (Introduction) 4.24 avg rating — 974 ratings — published 1995 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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