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Ms. Zora Neale Hurston
BIOGRAPHY
VITAL STATS
Born:
January 7, 1891
Notasulg, Alabama
Died:
January 28,1960
Best Known For:
Folklorist,Cultural Anthropologist, Writer
HOTTEST FACTOID:
Hurston graduated Barnard College at the age of 37, showing it's never too late to learn.
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"Janie knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie's first dream was dead. So she became a woman." "Janie, Ah hope God may kill me, if Ah'm lyin'. Nobody else on earth kin hold uh candle tuh...
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- "Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding space"
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Biography of Zora Neale Hurston
Hurston was closely associated with the Harlem Renaissance and has influenced such writers as Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Gayle Jones, Alice Walker, and Toni Cade Bambara.
A graduate of Howard University in 1918, she was one of the earliest pledges of Zeta Phi Beta. Upon graduation she was given a scholarship to Barnard College where she graduated in 1927 at the prime age of 36 and as the schools only African American student. Zora Neale Hurston is considered one of the pre-eminent writers of twentieth-century African-American literature.
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Heritage:
African American
DID YOU KNOW?
Hurston was raised in Eatonville, Florida the nation’s Black Township to be incorporated.
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