Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston was a novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist. She wrote four novels ( Jonah's Gourd Vine , 1934; Their Eyes Were Watching God , 1937; Moses, Man of the Mountains , 1939; and Seraph on the Suwanee , 1948); two books of folklore ( Mules and Men , 1935, and Every Tongue Got to Confess , 2001); a work of anthropological research, ( Tell My Horse , 1938); an autobiography ( Dust Tracks on a Road , 1942); an international bestselling nonfiction work ( Barracoon: The Story of the...See more
Zora Neale Hurston was a novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist. She wrote four novels ( Jonah's Gourd Vine , 1934; Their Eyes Were Watching God , 1937; Moses, Man of the Mountains , 1939; and Seraph on the Suwanee , 1948); two books of folklore ( Mules and Men , 1935, and Every Tongue Got to Confess , 2001); a work of anthropological research, ( Tell My Horse , 1938); an autobiography ( Dust Tracks on a Road , 1942); an international bestselling nonfiction work ( Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo ," 2018); and over fifty short stories, essays, and plays. She attended Howard University, Barnard College, and Columbia University and was a graduate of Barnard College in 1928. She was born on January 7, 1891, in Notasulga, Alabama, and grew up in Eatonville, Florida. See less
