![]() ![]() To support herself and finance her efforts to get an education, Hurston worked a variety of jobs, including as a maid for an actress in a touring Gilbert and Sullivan group. Following the death of her mother, Lucy Ann (Potts) Hurston, in 1904, and her father's subsequent remarriage, Hurston lived with an assortment of family members for the next few years. Her father, John Hurston, was a pastor, and he moved the family to Florida when Hurston was very young. Hurston was the daughter of two formerly enslaved people. Her birthday, according to Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters (1996), may not be January 7, but January 15. Hurston was also known to adjust her birth year from time to time as well. She probably had no memories of Notasulga, having moved to Florida as a toddler. ![]() However, according to many other sources, she took some creative license with that fact. Her birthplace has been the subject of some debate since Hurston herself wrote in her autobiography that she was born in Eatonville, Florida. Hurston was born on January 7, 1891, in Notasulga, Alabama. Hurston died in poverty in 1960, before a revival of interest led to posthumous recognition of her accomplishments. Hurston died in 1960 in the Saint Lucie County Welfare Home after suffering complications from a stroke.Zora Neale Hurston became a fixture of New York City's Harlem Renaissance, due to her novels like Their Eyes Were Watching God and shorter works like "Sweat." She was also an outstanding folklorist and anthropologist who recorded cultural history, as illustrated by her Mules and Men. Published a variety of articles in journals like the Saturday Evening In the 1940's Hurston returned to Eatonville and although she The negative critical response Hurston recieved Seraph on the Suwanee Hurston completed Tell My Horse and Seraph on the Suwanee,Ī novel based on the experiences of a white cracker family. Man, and was constantly hassled by the judgements of those in theįollowing the publication of Their Eyes Were Watching God Like Janie, Hurston lied about her age, had an affair with a much younger Many of Hurston's characters, is representitive of the author herself. Protagonist Janie to find love that is like a "pear tree." Janie, like Written in seven weeks during a folklore collectingĮxpedition in the Caribbean, the novel captures the plight of In 1937 Hurston reached the high water mark of herĬreative writing career with the publication of her novel Their Eyes The 1930's also found Hurston at the height of her novel writing career. ![]() Returned to Florida to take part in a unpublished collection of folktales and songs entitled The Florida Negro. As part of the WPA writers project Hurston Sun and Singing Steel, and the WPA writers project. Project, for which she produced her own works The Great Day, From Sun to Her creative talent between her work for the WPA Federal Theatre ![]() In addition to collecting folklore Hurston split Went on to publish two collections of folk lore Mules and Men (1935), aĬollection of folktales from her birthplace, and Tell My Horse (1938) a Her interest in the folk translated into aįellowship at Barnard University with famed anthropologist Franz Boas. That prioritized the creative significance of working class black culture "John Redding Goes To Sea," and "Sweat" Hurston created an artistic aesthetic Through the publication of stories such as "Spunk," Soon became one of the prominent New Negro artists who formed the focal No job, no friends, and a lot of hope." Born on JanuinĮatonville, Florida Hurston attended Howard University where she becameĪcquinted with figureheads of the Renaissance such as Alain Locke andĬoming to Harlem at the bequest of Johnson, Hurston Take part in the self-consciously created Harlem Renaissance with " $1.50, In 1925, Zora Neale Hurston traveled to Harlem to Librarian, a producer, and in her latter and more impoverished years a maid. She worked as a playwrite, anĪnthropologist, a high school and college Drama professor, a director, a Furthermore, Hurston held many more occupations Shadow." Even the birthdate printed on the tombstone, a birthdate that HurstonĬites in her autobiography, proves inaccurate as family records indicate that she She was a woman as Mary Helen Washington elequently observed "half in Walker placed at her grave at the Garden of Heavenly Rest in 1973,ĭoes not fully or acurately capture her multifacetedĮxistance. Even the epigraph that graces the headstone that Alice Zora Neale Hurston lived many lives during her all to ![]()
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