Biography EssayFrom the 1930s through the 1960s, Zora Neale Hurston was the most prolific and accomplished black woman writer in America. During that thirtyyear period she published seven books, many ...
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Zora Neale Hurston (1903-1960), folklorist and novelist, was best known for her collection of African American folklore Mules and Men (1935) and her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), in whic...
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"Zora was funny, irreverent (she was the first to call the Harlem Renaissance literati the 'niggerati'), good-looking and sexy," wrote Alice Walker. Having been one of the most prolific African-Americ...
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From the 1930s through the 1960s, Zora Neale Hurston was the most prolific and accomplished black woman writer in America. During that thirty-year period she published seven books, numerous short st...
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Zora Neale Hurston achieved moderate success during the Harlem Renaissance as a short-story writer and a collector of black-American folklore. Her stories deserve attention beyond the concerns of bla...
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Cheryl Hines, star of HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm, has a card up her sleeve:She plays poker— and wins—against celebrities and professionals on the tournament circuit. She also love...
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Flush--ha! Get it? "Flush"!--with excitement from last week's low-stakes scratch-off poker competition, this week the Media Mob and the Daily Transom decided to up the ante. What would happen if we...
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Internet poker players are raising the stakes in Washington.Threatened by a federal law that restricts online gambling, the Poker Players Alliance, a two-year-old lobbying group that says it repres...
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A Harvard Law School professor best known for defending the man who leaked the Pentagon Papers and for helping parents sue chemical companies in a case popularized by the film "A Civil Action" has ...
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Maxime Talbot loves playing hockey and, perhaps even more, talking about it. The enjoyment he gets from playing the sport is difficult to disguise.Starting Friday, Talbot will enter a new arena in ...
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PARADISE ISLAND, Bahamas — When you're playing poker in paradise, the action on the felt has to be mighty good to equal the surroundings.Last week's PokerStars Caribbean Adventure here at the...
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