Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston

• Birth:    1901, but probably January 7, 1891
  
• Death:    January 28, 1960
  
• Nationality:   American, Notasulga,Alabama-her autobiography says Eatonville, Florida
  
• Education:   Howard. Graduated from Barnard , BA in Anthropology, studied with Margaret Mead
  
• Books Written
• "Journey's End" (Negro World, 1922), poetry
• "Night" (Negro World, 1922), poetry
• "Passion" (Negro World, 1922), poetry
• Color Struck (Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life, 1925), play
• Muttsy (Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life) 1926, short story.
• "Sweat" (1926), short story
• "How It Feels to Be Colored Me" (1928), essay
• "Hoodoo in America" (1931) in The Journal of American Folklore
• "The Gilded Six-Bits" (1933), short story
• Jonah's Gourd Vine (1934), novel
• Mules and Men (1935), non-fiction
• Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), novel
• Tell My Horse (1938), non-fiction
• Moses, Man of the Mountain (1939), novel
• Dust Tracks on a Road (1942), autobiography
• Seraph on the Suwanee (1948), novel
• "What White Publishers Won't Print" (Negro Digest, 1950)
• I Love Myself When I Am Laughing… and Then Again When I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader (Alice Walker, ed.; 1979)
• The Sanctified Church (1981)
• Spunk: Selected Stories (1985)
• Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life (play, with Langston Hughes; edited with introductions by George Houston Bass and Henry Louis Gates Jr.; 1991)
• The Complete Stories (introduction by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Sieglinde Lemke; 1995)
• Novels & Stories: Jonah's Gourd Vine, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Moses, Man of the Mountain, Seraph on the Suwanee, Selected Stories (Cheryl A. Wall, ed.; Library of America, 1995) ISBN 978-0-940450-83-7
• Folklore, Memoirs, & Other Writings: Mules and Men, Tell My Horse, Dust Tracks on a Road, Selected Articles (Cheryl A. Wall, ed.; Library of America, 1995) ISBN 978-0-940450-84-4
• Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-tales from the Gulf States (2001)
• Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters, collected and edited by Carla Kaplan (2003)
• Collected Plays (2008)
• Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" (2018)
• Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance (2020)
• Biography

an American author, anthropologist, and filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-1900s American South and published research on hoodoo.The most popular of her four novels is Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937. She also wrote more than 50 short stories, plays, and essays.  From Wikipedia

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