Zora Neale Hurston

• She was an American writer and folklorist.
• Hurston's work also had an impact on later black American authors.
• Hurston was educated at Howard University, at Barnard College, and at Columbia University.
• She went to Eatonville after college for anthropological field study that influenced her later output in fiction.
• Hurston is noted for her metaphorical language, her story-telling abilities, and her interest in and celebration of Southern Black culture in the United States.
• Her best-known novel is Their Eyes Were Watching God in which she tracked a Souther black woman's search for her true identity and a community in which she can develop that identity.
• Throughout her career, she addressed issues of race and gender, often relating them to the search for freedom.
• In her later years, Hurston experienced health problems and died impoverished and unrecognized by the literary community.
• Her writings were rediscovered in the 1970s by a new generation of black writers.
• In 1995, a two-volume set of her fiction and nonfiction writings were published.

Source

"Zora Neale Hurston." Microsoft® Student 2009 [DVD]. Redmond, WA: Microsoft Corporation, 2008.

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