She made her name capturing the essence of the black cultural experience in twentieth century America, through literature. Zora Neale Hurston was... Zora Neale Hurston Captured Essence Of Blackness ...

Few 20th-century American novels are more widely celebrated than Zora Neale Hurston’s 1937 classic, Their Eyes Were Watching God. The work, which traces a Southern black woman’s odyssey through ...

Zora Neale Hurston posing outside of a cabin in Belle Glade, Florida, circa 1935 Lomax Collection / LOC / PhotoQuest / Getty Images Nearly a century after it was completed, a Zora Neale Hurston play ...

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Try this short quiz on books that arrived after their authors departed. By J. D. Biersdorfer Although her books, written in the dialect of the Deep South, established her as one of the foremost ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Zora Neale Hurston was one of the more vibrant personalities in Florida's literary history. She wrote with passion, poetry and ...

Hurston wrote a short story, titled “Spunk,” in 1925 and a decade later she turned it into a play. In 1925, Zora Neale Hurston wrote a short story titled “Spunk,” and a decade later she turned it into ...

More than 80 years after she gave the world “Their Eyes Were Watching God,” Harlem Renaissance icon Zora Neale Hurston’s home has officially been preserved. Nestled in a historically Black community ...

The Yale Repertory Theatre is on a roll of rediscovery. The theater’s current production of Zora Neale Hurston‘s” Spunk” is an even bigger deal than last season’s revival of Steve Carter’s “Eden.” ...

Civil Rights activist Zora Neale Hurston is the new Google Doodle today in order to celebrate what would have been her 123rd birthday. Read on for the facts on Hurston to see why she’s someone to ...

Elements of Hurston’s conservatism are also evident, but often overlooked, in her best-known work. Their Eyes Were Watching God traces the tumultuous life of Janie Crawford. At the age of 16, Janie’s ...

Zora Neale Hurston was a prominent writer of the Harlem Renaissance known for her passionate stories about Black life in Florida. Author Alice Walker helped revive interest in Hurston's work in the ...