Zora Neale Hurston was an American author and filmmaker. She was known to focus on portraying racial struggles in the early-1900s American South. She wrote novels, short stories, poetry, and essays. Their Eyes Were Watching God is the most known work of her.
Hurston was born on January 7, 1891, in Notasulga, Alabama. Her grandparents from both sides were born into slavery. Her father was a carpenter and her mother was a school teacher. As a kid, Hurston faced racism and wrote about it in her essay "How It Feels To Be Colored Me". She was also deprived of studies for the lack of care from her family.
In her early youth, Zora Neale Hurston started working as a maid. later she was able to resume her education and obtained graduation from the high school of Morgan State University. In 1925, The New Negro selected a short story called "Spunk" by her. In 1926 with some fellow Niggerati (as they described themselves) she worked to publish the African-American literary magazine "Fire".
In 1930, the first three novels of Hurston were published. She also worked for collecting African-American folklores from different parts of America. In that process, she interviewed the last known survivor of the enslaved Africans. She also conducted research on Negro music, folklore, literature, hoodoo, and other forms of culture. In 1938, she published "Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica". "Dust Tracks on a Road" is her autobiography.
She is considered one of the most influential African American authors. Her works influenced Black Literature And Black Womanhood. She has created a different structure in anthropological and cultural research. Today we are remembering Zora Neale Hurston with her most magical quotes.
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