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May 3, 2018 · Zora Neale Hurston's searing book about Cudjo Lewis, brought to Alabama aboard the Clotilda—the last known US slave ship—took nearly 90 years to find a publisher.
At Columbia, the Zora Neale Hurston Professorship of English honors her life and work. Read more about Hurston in the Columbia Encyclopedia. A conference on Hurston's legacy, featuring a keynote lecture by Fall 2003 Virginia C. Gildersleeve Professor Alice Walker, drew over 1,000 participants to Barnard College.
News “Funny thing happens in the life of a trope”: Henry Louis Gates, Jr., on W.E.B. Du Bois and Zora Neale Hurston. July 27, 2023
In 1936, the anthropologist and noted Harlem Renaissance figure Zora Neale Hurston traveled to Jamaica to learn the customs and traditions of its free Black population. Her experience there ...
Zora Neale Hurston is considered one of the pre-eminent writers of twentieth-century African-American literature. Hurston was closely associated with the Harlem Renaissance and has influenced such writers as Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Gayle Jones, Alice Walker, and Toni Cade Bambara. In 1975, Ms. Magazine published Alice Walker’s essay, “In Search of Zora Neale Hurston” reviving ...
Apr 9, 2008 · Born to John Hurston, a Missionary Baptist preacher and carpenter, and Lucy Potts Hurston in Notasulga, Alabama, Hurston is the fifth of eight children. Image courtesy of the Zora Neale Hurston Trust.
As I crossed the Maitland-Eatonville township line I could see a group on the store porch. I was delighted. The town had not changed. Same love of talk and song. So I drove on down there before I stopped. Yes, there was George Thomas, Calvin Daniels, Jack and Charlie Jones, Gene Brazzle, B. Moseley and “Seaboard.” Deep in a game of Florida-flip. All of those who were not actually playing ...
