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Zora Neale Hurston

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Born: January 06 1891

Died: 2727 01 19601960

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Zora Neale Hurston was an American folklorist and author. In 1925, shortly before entering Barnard College, Hurston became one of the leaders of the literary renaissance happening in Harlem, producing the short-lived literary magazine Fire!! along with Langston Hughes and Wallace Thurman. This literary movement became the center of the Harlem Renaissance.

Hurston applied her Barnard ethnographic training to document African American folklore in her critically acclaimed book Mules and Men along with fiction Their Eyes Were Watching God and dance, assembling a folk-based performance group that recreated her Southern tableau, with one performance on Broadway.

Hurston was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to travel to Haiti and conduct research on conjure in 1937. Her work was significant because she was able to break into the secret societies and expose their use of drugs to create the Vodun trance, also a subject of study for fellow dancer/anthropologist Katherine Dunham who was then at the University of Chicago.

In 1954 Hurston was unable to sell her fiction but was assigned by the Pittsburgh Courier to cover the small-town murder trial of Ruby McCollum, the prosperous black wife of the local lottery racketeer, who had killed a racist white doctor.
Hurston also contributed to Woman in the Suwanee County Jail, a book by journalist and civil rights advocate William Bradford Huie.

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Zora Neale Hurston

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Books from Zora Neale Hurston

Their Eyes Were Watching God

Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

Dust Tracks on a Road

Mules and Men

Hitting a Straight Lick with a Crooked Stick: Stories from the Harlem Renaissance

I Love Myself When I Am Laughing... And Then Again: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader

Jonah's Gourd Vine

Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica

Moses, Man of the Mountain

"Sweat"

The New Negro

Folklore, Memoirs, and Other Writings

Every Tongue Got to Confess

Graphic Classics, Volume 22: African-American Classics

American Midnight: Tales of the Dark

Spunk

The Skull Talks Back: And Other Haunting Tales

The Six Fools

Spunk: The Selected Short Stories

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