Zora Neale Hurston Eatonville Map


Zora Neale Hurston Fast Facts

  • January 7, 1891-January 28, 1960

  • Born in Notasulga, Alabama

  • Moved to Eatonville, Florida in 1894

  • Folklorist, Anthropologist,Novelist, Social Activist, Playwright, Poet

  • Known as America's Favorite Black Conservative

  • Queen of the Harlem Renaissance

  • Graduate of Columbia University, Barnard College, Morgan State University, Howard University

  • Collected folklore & stories from Latin America, the Caribbean and the South

  • 1934 Rosenwald Fund Fellowship revoked

  • 2x Guggenheim Fellowship to conduct research on ethnography in Jamaica and Haiti

Recommended Readings:

1.Wrapped in Rainbows:The Life of Zora Neale Hurston-By Valerie Boyd

2. Looking for Zora- Alice Walker

3. Dust Tracks on a Road-Zora Neale Hurston


Rae’s Favorite Zora Works:

1.Jonah and the Gourd Vine

2. Barracoon: The Last Black Cargo

1.Their Eyes Were Watching God


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