Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)
Author of Their Eyes Were Watching God
About the Author
Zora Neale Hurston was born in 1901 in Eatonville, Fla. She left home at the age of 17, finished high school in Baltimore, and went on to study at Howard University, Barnard College, and Columbia University before becoming one of the most prolific writers in the Harlem Renaissance. Her works show more included novels, essays, plays, and studies in folklore and anthropology. Her most productive years were the 1930s and early 1940s. It was during those years that she wrote her autobiography Dust Tracks on a Road, worked with the Federal Writers Project in Florida, received a Guggenheim fellowship, and wrote four novels. She is most remembered for her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937. In 2018, her previously unpublished work, Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo, was published. She died penniless and in obscurity in 1960 and was buried in an unmarked grave. In 1973, her grave was rediscovered and marked and her novels and autobiography have since been reprinted. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Zora Neale Hurston
I Love Myself When I Am Laughing... and Then Again When I Am Lookin Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader (1979) 417 copies
A Teacher's Guide to Their Eyes Were Watching God: Common-Core Aligned Teacher Materials and a Sample Chapter (2014) 8 copies
An Introduction to Their Eyes Were Watching God (The Big Read) National Endowment For The Arts (2008) 6 copies
Polk County: A Comedy of Negro Life on a Sawmill Camp with Authentic Negro Music in Three Acts 3 copies
Sweat - A Short Story;Including the Introductory Essay 'A Brief History of the Harlem Renaissance' (2022) 2 copies
The Complete Stories by Hurston, Zora Neale. (Harper Perennial Modern Classics,2008) [Paperback] 2 copies
The "Pet Negro" system 1 copy
Drenched in Light 1 copy
Bahamas 1 copy
The Bone Contention 1 copy
The Fiery Chariot 1 copy
Forty Yards 1 copy
Hurston, Zora Neal Archive 1 copy
Lawing and Jawing 1 copy
Woofing 1 copy
Fast and Furious 1 copy
The Sermon in the Valley 1 copy
The Complete Stories 1 copy
Jook 1 copy
Railroad Camp 1 copy
Cock Robin 1 copy
The House That Jack Built 1 copy
“The Eatonville Anthology” 1 copy
Hurston Zora Neale 1 copy
Their Eyes Are Watching God 1 copy
Lenox Avenue 1 copy
Spears: A Play in Two Acts 1 copy
Cold Keener: A Review 1 copy
Filling Station 1 copy
Heaven 1 copy
Mr. Frog 1 copy
Associated Works
Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Contributor, some editions — 915 copies
The Best Short Stories by Black Writers, 1899-1967: The Classic Anthology (1967) — Contributor — 174 copies
Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent from the Ancient… (1992) — Contributor — 157 copies
The Graphic Canon, Vol. 3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest (2013) — Contributor — 146 copies
Writing Women's Lives: An Anthology of Autobiographical Narratives by Twentieth-Century American Women Writers (1994) — Contributor — 121 copies
Writing New York: A Literary Anthology (Expanded 10th-Anniversary Edition) (2008) — Contributor — 93 copies
The Glorious American Essay: One Hundred Essays from Colonial Times to the Present (2020) — Contributor — 81 copies
Grand Mothers: Poems, Reminiscences, and Short Stories About the Keepers of Our Traditions (1994) — Contributor — 77 copies
Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power and Pleasure of Reading and Writing (2018) — Contributor — 73 copies
Bearing Witness: Selections from African-American Autobiography in the Twentieth Century (1991) — Contributor — 69 copies
Black Female Playwrights: An Anthology of Plays before 1950 (Blacks in the Diaspora) (1989) — Contributor — 43 copies
Best of The Oxford American: Ten Years from the Southern Magazine of Good Writing {anthology} (2002) — Contributor — 43 copies
Women in the Trees: U.S. Women's Short Stories About Battering and Resistance, 1839-1994 (1996) — Contributor — 39 copies
Centers of the Self: Stories by Black American Women, from the Nineteenth Century to the Present (1994) — Contributor — 28 copies
Weird Women: Volume 2: 1840-1925: Classic Supernatural Fiction by Groundbreaking Female Writers (2) (2021) — Contributor — 26 copies
The Unforgetting Heart: An Anthology of Short Stories by African American Women (1859-1993) (1993) — Contributor — 23 copies
The Roots of African American Drama: An Anthology of Early Plays, 1858-1938 (African American Life Series) (1990) — Contributor — 5 copies
Story in America, 1933-1934: Thirty-Four Selections from the American Issues of "Story," the Magazine Devoted Solely to… (1934) — Contributor — 3 copies
New World Journal #5 — Contributor — 1 copy
The Netzahualcoyotl News, Volume 1, Number 1 — Contributor — 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Hurston, Zora Neale
- Legal name
- Hurston, Zora Neale Lee
- Other names
- HURSTON, Zora NEALE
HURSTON, Zora NEALE Lee
NEALE HURSTON, Zora
HURSTON, Zora - Birthdate
- 1891-01-07
- Date of death
- 1960-01-28
- Burial location
- Garden of Heavenly Rest Cemetery, Fort Pierce, Florida, USA
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Notasulga, Alabama, USA
- Place of death
- Fort Pierce, Florida, USA
- Places of residence
- Notasulga, Alabama, USA
Eatonville, Florida, USA
Westfield, New Jersey, USA
Fort Pierce, Florida, USA
New York, New York, USA
Eau Gallie, Florida, USA (show all 8)
Jamaica
Haiti - Education
- Morgan Academy (1918)
Howard University (1920)
Barnard College (BA|Anthropology|1927)
Columbia University - Occupations
- novelist
short-story writer
playwright
essayist
folklorist
teacher (show all 8)
maid
freelance writer - Relationships
- Hurston, Lucy (niece)
Boas, Franz (teacher)
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan (friend) - Organizations
- American Folklore Society
American Anthropological Society
American Ethnological Society
Zeta Phi Beta
Bethune-Cookman University
Paramount Studios (writer) (show all 12)
Patrick Air Force Base (librarian)
Fort Pierce Chronicle
Lincoln Park Academy (teacher)
Library of Congress (librarian)
North Carolina Central University (professor)
WPA - Awards and honors
- Zeta Phi Beta
Guggenheim Fellowship (1937)
Bethune-Cookman College Award for Education and Human Relations (1956)
Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities - Agent
- Ann Watkins
Jean Parker Waterbury - Short biography
- See Hurston's biography in the online Encyclopedia of Alabama.
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- Works
- 83
- Also by
- 73
- Members
- 28,906
- Popularity
- #692
- Rating
- 4.0
- Reviews
- 532
- ISBNs
- 318
- Languages
- 11
- Favorited
- 94