Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) was an American author. Her works include Mules and Men (1935), Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), and Dust Tracks on a Road (1942).[1]
Life and Works
Hurston was born January 7, 1891 in Notasulga, Alabama.[2] She grew up in the first officially all-black town of Eatonville, Florida, the daughter of a Baptist preacher, excelled in classes at Howard University, and moved to New York City in the 1920s to attend the Harlem Renaissance.[3] She received a B.A. from Barnard College there, and in 1925, began writing with the publication of her short story, "Spunk."[4] She gathered folktales from the South and the Caribbean and published them in Mules and Men.
In 1937, she released her most famous novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, about a black woman called Janie who in a series of marriages determines her relationship with whites.[5] In 1942, she wrote Dust Tracks on the Road, her autobiography, and ended her writing career with Seraph on the Suwannee (1948).[6]
She died on January 28, 1960.
See also
References
- ↑ The New York Public Library Student's Desk Reference. Prentice Hall, New York: 1991.
- ↑ http://www.biography.com/people/zora-neale-hurston-9347659
- ↑ http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/zora-neale-hurston-is-born
- ↑ http://www.blackpast.org/aah/hurston-zora-neale-1891-1960
- ↑ http://www.notablebiographies.com/Ho-Jo/Hurston-Zora-Neale.html
- ↑ "Hurston, Zora Neale." Encyclopedia Britannica Online.
