Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston was an American Writer and Folklorist. She lived from 1891 - 1960. These are ten facts about her life.

• Zora studied at Howard University, at Barnard College, and at Columbia University.
• She studied under a German American anthropologistt named Franz Boas.
• She grew up in Eatonville, the first all-black town in the United States.
• Her fiction books are noted for her metaphorical language, her story-telling abilities, and her interest in and celebration of Southern Black culture of the US.
• Her most famous book is Their Eyes Were Watching God.
• Throughout Zora's career, she addresses issues of race and gender, and she relates them to the search for freedom.
• Zora died from health problems.
• She was poor and unrecognized until the 1970's, when she was discovered by a new generation of black writers, most notably, Alice Walker.
• In 1995, a two-vollume set of her writings was published.
• Go Gator and Muddy the Water: Writings by Zora Neale Hurston from the Federal Writes' Project is a collection of folklore published by Zora Hurston and republished in 1999 by the Florida Federal Writers' Project.

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