Dec 30, 2009

Salem on History | Zora Neale Hurston

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Series: Dictionary of World Biography: Twentieth Century
Categories: Women’s Issues, Literature, Publishing
Subcategories: Authors, Writers, Novelists, Short Story Writers, African Americans, Blacks, Race, Ethnicity, Racism
Curriculum: American History 1901-1950, American History 1951-present, Women’s History, African American History

Article abstract: The most accomplished African American woman writing in the first half of the twentieth century, Zora Neale Hurston was a major writer of the Harlem Renaissance and an important influence on later generations of women writers.

Early Life

Zora Neale Hurston’s hometown was Eatonville, Florida, a self-governing all-black town that allowed her to develop a sense of individuality. One of eight children, she was urged to “jump at de sun” by her mother, who tried to preserve her high spirits so that she would not become, in Zora’s...

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Salem on History | Zora Neale Hurston

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Early Life

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