zora neale hurston
i'm working on a small paper. i'm cutting out some time to do research about Zora, and it gets me pretty worked up thinking about old Florida, farm towns, and how her life must have been. i'd really like to drive up us-27 and see what these parts of Florida look like now.
Hurston was born in Eatonville, the town she writes about in Their Eyes Were Watching God, but moved to the NE for college. She wrote TEWWG in Haiti, on a Guggenheim fellowship. She was never properly respected for her work until after she died. Alice walker discovered her unmarked grave and placed the stone:
Zora Neale Hurston
A Genius of the South
1901 -- -- -- 1960
Novelist Folklorist Anthropologist
here's a clip of hurston singing an old florida folk song.
Hurston was born in Eatonville, the town she writes about in Their Eyes Were Watching God, but moved to the NE for college. She wrote TEWWG in Haiti, on a Guggenheim fellowship. She was never properly respected for her work until after she died. Alice walker discovered her unmarked grave and placed the stone:
Zora Neale Hurston
A Genius of the South
1901 -- -- -- 1960
Novelist Folklorist Anthropologist
here's a clip of hurston singing an old florida folk song.