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 which she charted a young African American woman's...

From 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 short stories, magazine articles, and plays, and she gained a...

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 stories, magazine articles, and plays, and she also...

A prolific novelist, folklorist, anthropologist, and critic, Zora Neale Hurston was one of the inspiring personalities of the Harlem Renaissance. Her diverse interests intertwine in her most influential novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), where...

Hurston is widely considered one of the foremost writers of the Harlem Renaissance, a period of great achievement in African American art and literature during the 1920s and 1930s. Her fiction, which depicts relationships among black residents in her...

Born January 7, 1891 Eatonville, Florida Died January 28, 1960 Fort Pierce, Florida American short story writer, autobiographer, novelist, and folklorist One of the most memorable figures of the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston had a wit and a...

Zora Neale Hurston Born January 7, 1891 (Eatonville, Florida)Died January 28, 1960 (Fort Pierce, Florida) Author and folklorist Zora Neale Hurston was a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance, one of the most important cultural movements of the Roaring...

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 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching...

On Saturday nights in summer, hundreds of fingers pound out mesmerizing rhythms on African drums _ a ritual repeated for decades in Harlem's Marcus Garvey Park.This year, the drums have a counterpoint: the complaints of "new Harlemites.""African drumming is wonderful for the first four hours,...

Can writing confer immortality? Let’s hope for at least temporary immortality, because the season’s books are crowded with the dead. David Halberstam, Molly Ivins and Arthur Schlesinger Jr., all three of whom died earlier this year, have books coming out this fall: Halberstam’s long-awaited narrative...

High above the intersection of Park Avenue and 26th Street, exactly where no one will notice it, a small metal sign silently proclaims the crossroads to be “Herman Melville Square.” So the city pays heed—barely—to the greatest writer ever to live and write here. Of...

High above the intersection of Park Avenue and 26th Street, exactly where no one will notice it, a small metal sign silently proclaims the crossroads to be “Herman Melville Square.” So the city pays heed—barely—to the greatest writer ever to live and write here....

In the following essay, Meisenhelder analyzes the narrative techniques that Hurston utilizes to explore racial and sexual issues in Mules and Men.

In the following essay, Jordan finds similarities between Mules and Men and J. Frank Dobie's Tongues of the Monte, maintaining that because of their unconventional formats, both books offer “a more holistic version of the folklore they present.”

In the following essay, Green contends that Hurston and Kate Chopin “both construct communities in which woman is equated with Other” in their respective stories “Sweat” and “Beyond the Bayou.”

The role of Zora Neale Hurston's literature on the feminist movement of the early 20th century. In Hurston's "Their Eyes were Watching God," the character of Janie represented a girl's transformation into a strong symbol of feminism.

Explores the life and career of African American writer Zora Neale Hurston includung her novels, plays, and her collection of folklore.