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	Zora Neale Hurston - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Zora Neale Hurston, as depicted in a mural in Flagstaff, Arizona.
		Hurston died penniless in obscurity and was buried in an unmarked grave in Fort Pierce, Florida until African-American novelist Alice Walker and literary scholar Charlotte Hunt found and marked the grave in 1973, sparking a Hurston renaissance.
		During her prime, Hurston was a supporter of the UNIA and Marcus Garvey, casting herself in fierce opposition to communism as professed by many of her colleagues in the Harlem Rennaisance such as Langston Hughes, who wrote several poems of effusive praise for the Soviet Union.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zora_Neal_Hurston (1505 words)

	Zora Neale Hurston - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891–January 28, 1960) was an American folklorist and author during the time of the Harlem Renaissance, best known for the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God.
		Hurston was "purposefully inconsistent in the birth dates she dispensed during her lifetime, most of which were fictitious".
		Hurston thus became by far the leading fl figure on the libertarian Old Right, and in 1952 she actively promoted the presidential candidacy of Robert Taft.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Zora_Neale_Hurston (1505 words)

	Zora Neale Hurston - MSN Encarta
		Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960), American writer and folklorist, whose anthropological study of her racial heritage, at a time when fl culture was not a popular field of study, influenced the Harlem Renaissance writers of the 1930s.
		Eatonville was the first incorporated all-fl town in the United States, and Hurston returned there after college for anthropological field study that influenced her later output in fiction as well as in folklore.
		Hurston's work was not political, but her characters' use of dialect, her manner of portraying fl culture, and her conservatism created controversy within the fl community.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761571753/Hurston_Zora_Neale.html (432 words)

	Zora Neale Hurston
		Zora Neale Hurston is considered one of the titans of twentieth-century African American literature.
		Although Hurston was closely associated with the Harlem Renaissance and has influenced such writers as Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Gayl Jones, Alice Walker, and Toni Cade Bambara, interest in her has only recently been revived after decades of neglect.
		Zora Neale Hurston, celebrated anthropologist, journalist, essayist, playwright, and bestselling novelist, was a twentieth-century visionary who infused her work with the customs and folk traditions of the fl American South.
	aalbc.com /authors/zoraneal.htm (905 words)

	Zora Neale Hurston: A Literary Life LiteraryTraveler.com
		Zora Neale Hurston was the fifth of eight children born to John Hurston, a carpenter, and Lucy Potts Hurston, a former school teacher.
		Hurston frequently fudged her birthdate as 1901, but most scholars believe she was born in 1891.
		Hurston's life was lived on the pages of her books and through the stories that she passed onto others.
	www.literarytraveler.com /literary_articles/zora_neale_hurston.aspx (1161 words)

	Author Profile: Zora Neale Hurston
		Zora Neale Hurston is probably best known today as the author of THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD (1937) and as one of the most prolific participants in the Harlem Renaissance.
		Zora was born in the all-fl town of Eatonville, Florida on January 7, 1891.
		Zora was a pioneer in the study of African-American folklore.
	www.teenreads.com /authors/au-hurston-zora.asp (941 words)

	Zora Neale Hurston biography - extended
		Zora Neale Hurston, novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist, was much responsible for the Harlem Renaissance being the watershed event in fl America as delineated through literature that it was.
		Zora was the fifth of eight children of John and Lucy Ann Potts Hurston.
		Zora seemed to view the entire world from the perspective of Eatonville, a place that fls could be sovereign from all of white society, even the segregation that enveloped it as a southern town.
	www.lkwdpl.org /wihohio/hurs-zorx.htm (1493 words)

	Jazz/Jerry Jazz Musician/Zora Neale Hurston biographer Carla Kaplan interview
		magazine article "Looking for Zora" and Robert Hemenway's 1977 biography reintroduced Zora Neale Hurston to the American landscape and ushered in a renaissance for a writer who was a bestselling author at her peak in the 1930's, but died penniless and in obscurity some three decades later.
		Hurston is now taught in American, African American, and Women's Studies courses in high schools and universities from coast to coast.
		In Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters, Hurston scholar Carla Kaplan has meticulously edited and annotated a landmark collection of letters that provide a penetrating and profound portrait of her life, impressive imagination, and writings.* She joins us in a December, 2002 conversation about Hurston, one of the most brilliant contributors to American letters.
	www.jerryjazzmusician.com /linernotes/zora_hurston.html (4413 words)

	Zora Neale Hurston - The Black Renaissance in Washington, DC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Zora Neale Hurston was the fifth child born to Lucy Ann Potts and John Hurston on January 7, 1891 in Notasulga, Alabama.
		Hurston spent her early childhood listening to stories the adults told on the porch of Joe Clarke’s store, which was considered the "heart and spring of the town".
		Hurston did much of her anthropological research on fl folklore in Eatonville but in 1929 and 1930 Hurston spent some time in the Bahamas collecting folklore.
	www.dclibrary.org /blkren/bios/hurstonzn.html (737 words)

	Zora Neale Hurston
		Zora Neale Hurston best known for her book "Their Eyes Are Watching God" (1937), was born in an all fl town of Eatonville, Florida on January 7, 1891.
		Zora and her siblings were unwanted by their stepmother and father and were sent to live with relatives and friends.
		Zora was a pioneer in the study of African-American folklore writings; she traveled back to Florida in 1927, to New Orleans in 1928 and to the Caribbean later on.
	www.library.csi.cuny.edu /dept/history/lavender/386/zhurston.html (992 words)

	A Rocky Road to Posterity: The Publication of Zora Neale Hurston
		Hurston, a controversial figure in her own time, has proved to be a touchstone of modern reception of both African-American literature and unconventional writing by women.
		Hurston was also seen as too prosaic in her approach to race relations by refusing to address them in her fiction.
		Hurston’s plummet from triumph into despair and anonymity followed by her sluggish resurrection when the cultural climate dictated is a tragic tale, but not an uncommon one.
	www.womenwriters.net /editorials/hurston.htm (2541 words)

	Zora Neale Hurston (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Zora Neale Hurston was one of the most prolific African-American female writers of her day.
		Hurston was born in the all-fl town of Eatonville, Florida.
		Hurston received a scholarship in 1925 to attend Barnard College in New York City where she studied anthropology under Franz Boas.
	www.founders.howard.edu /Reference/Webliographies/Hurston/Hurston.htm (1437 words)

	Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and Men and E-Project
		Zora Neale Hurston lived many lives during her all to unrecognized existance.
		She was a woman as Mary Helen Washington elequently observed "half in shadow." Even the birthdate printed on the tombstone, a birthdate that Hurston cites in her autobiography, proves inaccurate as family records indicate that she was born a full decade earlier.
		Like Janie, Hurston lied about her age, had an affair with a much younger man, and was constantly hassled by the judgements of those in the community who did not understand her.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~MA01/Grand-Jean/Hurston/Chapters/Zorabio.html (550 words)

	VG: Artist Biography: Hurston, Zora Neale
		Though during her life Zora Neale Hurston claimed her birth date as January 7, 1901 and her birth place as Eatonville, Florida, she was actually born on that date in the year 1891 in Notasulga, Alabama.
		Hurston apparently cut quite a figure in Harlem society, her hat perched jauntily on her head, as she regaled groups with her tales of Eatonville, Florida and shocked others with her outrageous behavior which included such social excesses as smoking in public.
		Hurston herself was unable to make a living from her writings and worked as a teacher, a librarian and a domestic in order to earn her livelihood.
	voices.cla.umn.edu /vg/Bios/entries/hurston_zora_neale.html (1948 words)

	Zora Neale Hurston discussion transcripts
		But Hurston spent so much of the time celebrating the culture that does exist outside of the larger impressions, but she does a wonderful job in this novel of letting that come through without having that be the theme and that’s one of the things we talked about earlier with Richard Wright.
		He didn’t really appreciate Zora Neale Hurston’s brand of politics because she did celebrate the African American community instead of just solely looking at the oppression, but it is there and it’s very much embodied in Tea Cake.
		Zora Hurston was claiming her right to an autonomous imagination, both as a woman and a member of the fl American community.
	wiredforbooks.org /zora.htm (9338 words)

	Zora Neale Hurston (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Zora Hurston was an American writer and folklorist, who influenced the Harlem Renaissance writers of the 1930's, as well as later fl American authors.
		Hurston's folklore collections include Mules and Men (published in 1935), based on her field research in the American South and Tell My Horse (published in 1938), which describes folk customs in Haiti and Jamaica.
		Hurston's work was not political in nature, but her characters' use of dialect, her manner of portraying fl culture and her conservatism created controversy within the fl community.
	www.mnsu.edu /emuseum/information/biography/fghij/hurston_zora.html (311 words)

	Zora Neale Hurston — Infoplease.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The Harlem Renaissance - The birth of the Harlem Renaissance by Beth Rowen and Borgna Brunner Zora Neale Hurston, 1935...
		The working-class pastoral of Zora Neale Hurston's Seraph on the Suwanee.
		Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Waiting God.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0824616.html (366 words)

	Gale - Free Resources - Black History - Biographies - Zora Neale Hurston (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Hurston, however, saw nothing wrong with being fl: "I do not belong to that sobbing school of Negrohood who hold that nature somehow has given them a lowdown dirty deal." Indeed she felt there was something so special about her flness that others could benefit just by being around her.
		Hurston was "faithfully" to perform her task and "to return to Mason all of said information, data, transcripts of music, etc., which she shall have obtained." Though this opportunity was what Hurston needed, its accompanying restrictions were not.
		Though Hurston was able to prove that she had been out of the country at the time of the alleged crime, and the charges were subsequently dropped, the story was leaked to the press and sensational, humiliating news headlines followed.
	www.galegroup.com /free_resources/bhm/bio/hurston_z.htm (7882 words)

	ZORA NEALE HURSTON: RECORDINGS, MANUSCRIPTS, AND EPHEMERA IN THE ARCHIVE OF FOLK CULTURE AND OTHER DIVISIONS OF THE ...
		A selection of plays by Zora Neale Hurston, and related articles, can be viewed online in the American Memory presentation entitled Zora Neale Hurston Plays at the Library of Congress.
		One undated letter from Hurston to Woodson has been identified on this reel (the letter and enclosure are filed in the "H" miscellany folder in container 5 of the collection).
		Hurston also briefly describes her first experiences in the field gathering folklore (listening copy is R-Dat cassette RGA 4836).
	www.loc.gov /folklife/guides/Hurston.html (1646 words)

	Volume D: American Literature between the Wars, 1914-1945 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Born in Eatonville, Florida, an all-fl town, Zora Neale Hurston was educated at Howard University, where she studied with Alain Locke, who would publish his groundbreaking anthology The New Negro in 1925, and at Barnard College, where she worked with Franz Boas, the well-known anthropologist.
		Hurston cultivated a dual career: as a storyteller she published her fiction in such magazines as Opportunity; as a scholar she returned to her hometown to study oral traditions, supported first by a fellowship, then by Mrs.
		Hurston went her own way as a writer and did not follow political value systems or agendas favored by other artists associated with the Harlem Renaissance.
	www.wwnorton.com /naal/vol_D/explorations/hurston.htm (480 words)

	Zora Neale Hurston on the Turpentine Camps
		Zora Neale Hurston and her work with the WPA in Florida.
		Zora Neale Hurston was already a published writer when she began working for the Florida division of the Work Projects Administration (WPA).
		Hurston never mentioned her work with the Federal Writer's Project in her autobiography, perhaps because of the stigma associated with the WPA's relief programs.
	www.floridamemory.com /OnlineClassroom/zora_hurston (215 words)

	Harlem 1900-1940: Schomburg Exhibit Zora Neale Hurston
		Zora Neale Hurston was born on January 7, 1891, in Eatonville, Florida.
		Hurston worked with the Federal Writers project and was also active in the theater.
		Many of her books have recently been republished and several plays based on her work have been produced on stage, such as "Spunk," "My Name is Zora," and "Mule Bone," written in collaboration with Langston Hughes.
	www.si.umich.edu /CHICO/Harlem/text/hurston.html (375 words)

	PAL: Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960)
		Hurston, who has undergone a revival in the last twenty-five years, celebrated the courage and the struggle of African Americans in the rural South in the early years of the past century.
		A contributor to the Harlem Renaissance, Hurston's chief interest was in folklore which she collected and published under various titles.
		Konzett, Delia C. Ethnic Modernisms: Anzia Yezierska, Zora Neale Hurston, Jean Rhys, and the Aesthetics of Dislocation.
	www.csustan.edu /english/reuben/pal/chap9/hurston.html (673 words)

	Amazon.com: Zora Neale Hurston: A Literary Biography: Books: Robert E. Hemenway (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Casebook (Casebooks in Contemporary Fiction) by Cheryl A. Wall on 10 pages
		Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Casebook (Casebooks in Criticism) by Cheryl A. Wall on 7 pages
		Zora Neale Hurston : Novels and Stories : Jonah's Gourd Vine / Their Eyes Were Watching God / Moses, Man of the Mountain / Seraph on the Suwanee / Selected Stories (Library of America) by Zora Neale Hurston
	www.amazon.com /Zora-Neale-Hurston-Literary-Biography/dp/0252006526 (720 words)

	Black Libertarian: The Story of Zora Neale Hurston
		Hurston thought that many fls had been tricked into believing that anyone who was a liberal was a friend to the fls.
		Hurston was criticized for not addressing racial issues, but she hardly ignored them.
		Zora Neale Hurtston would would be rolling in her grave if she knew how the Left was portraying her.
	www.lewrockwell.com /orig/epstein2.html (1278 words)

	Hurston
		Zora Neale Hurston was born in Eatonville, Florida, a small town inhabited primarily by African-Americans.
		Hurston took advantage of this situation by working as a maid, though she failed by refusing to behave humbly and fought off sexual advances by her employers (Howard 16).
		Hurston's stories "Sweat" and "The Gilded Six-Bits" are influenced by her life as an African-American woman in the Harlem Renaissance.
	itech.fgcu.edu /faculty/wohlpart/alra/hurston.htm (14696 words)

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