Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston was born in 1891 in Notasulga, Alabama, and grew up in Eatonville, Florida, the first incorporated Black municipality in the country. She lost her mother at thirteen, left school when her father stopped paying, worked as a servant and then as a maid to a theatrical troupe, and resumed her studies at twenty-six, making herself ten years younger. An anthropologist trained by Franz Boas, she collected tales and songs in Florida and Louisiana, and studied voodoo in Jamaica and Haiti. She died penniless in a Florida welfare home in 1960, and her grave remained unmarked.

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• NovelTheir Eyes Were Watching GodZora Neale Hurston · 1937Literature