![]() ![]() ![]() Hurston’s writing was neglected in her lifetime and she died in poverty her grave was unmarked until the novelist Alice Walker located it in 1972. Alongside her writing and research, Hurston taught drama at what was then the North Carolina College for Negroes. She collected hundreds of folk tales, which deeply influenced her own writing, including Their Eyes Were Watching God. Hurston pursued lifelong interests in African-American folklore, hoodoo and music, carrying out ethnographic research across the South of the United States and the Caribbean. She spent most of her childhood in Eatonville, Florida, and studied anthropology at Howard University in Washington, DC and Barnard College in New York, where she was the sole Black student. Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) was a novelist and folklorist, a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance and one of the major American writers of the 20th-century. ![]()
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