{"id":4582,"date":"2015-07-08T09:04:58","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T16:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=4582"},"modified":"2018-06-29T11:28:05","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T18:28:05","slug":"hurston-zora-neale-1891-1960","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=4582","title":{"rendered":"HURSTON, ZORA NEALE, 1891-1960"},"content":{"rendered":"

Biography;<\/strong><\/p>\n

Writer; ethnologist; folklorist.\u00a0 Born January 7, 1891, Notasulga (moved to Eatonville, Florida, with her family as a child).\u00a0 Parents–John and Lucy Potts Hurston.\u00a0 Married– Herbert Sheen, 1927; Albert Price III, 1939.\u00a0 Education:\u00a0 graduated from Morgan Academy, Baltimore; Howard College, A.A., 1920; Barnard College, B.A., 1928; graduate study at Columbia University (studied\u00a0 with the anthropologist Franz Boas and fellow students Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead).\u00a0Collected folklore in the South and the Caribbean (Jamaica, Haiti, Bermuda, Honduras), 1933-39, 1946-48;\u00a0staff writer, Paramount Studios, 1941; worked at various jobs (college instructor, librarian, as well as menial work).\u00a0 Founded the school of dramatic arts at Bethune-Cookman College, 1934; taught at North Carolina College for Negroes. Member American Folklore Society; American Anthropological Society; American Ethnological Society, Zeta Phi Beta. Closely associated with writers of the Harlem Renaissance.\u00a0 Recognized as an important figure in the history of African-American literature; influenced many other writers. Awarded Guggenheim Fellowships, 1936 and 1938; Annisfield Award, 1943; LL. D. from Morgan College, 1939; Bethune-Cookman College Award for Education and Human Relations, 1956.\u00a0Selected for the first class of the Alabama\u00a0Writers Hall of Fame, 2015.\u00a0Died January 28, 1960.<\/p>\n

Sources;<\/strong><\/p>\n

Contemporary Authors online.<\/p>\n

Publications;<\/strong><\/p>\n

Collected Essays. HarperCollins, 1998.<\/p>\n

Complete Stories.\u00a0 HarperCollins, 1994.<\/p>\n

Dust Tracks on a Road.\u00a0 Lippincott, 1942.<\/p>\n

Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk Tales from the Gulf States. HarperCollins, 2001.<\/p>\n

Folklore, Memoirs, and Other Writings. Library of America, 1995.<\/p>\n

The Gilded Six-Bits.\u00a0 Redpath Press, 1986.<\/p>\n

I Love Myself when I Am Laughing.. And then again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive.\u00a0 Feminist Press, 1979.<\/p>\n

Jonah’s Gourd Vine. Lippincott,\u00a01934.<\/p>\n

Moses, Man of the Mountains. Lippincott, 1939.<\/p>\n

Mules and Men. Lippincott,\u00a01935.<\/p>\n

Novels and Stories. Library of America, 1995.<\/p>\n

The Sanctified Church:\u00a0 The Folklore Writings of Zora Neale Hurston. Turtle Island Foundation, 1983.<\/p>\n

Seraph on the Suwanee.\u00a0 Scribner, 1948.<\/p>\n

Six Fools. HarperCollins, 2005.<\/p>\n

Spunk:\u00a0 The Selected Stories of Zora Neale Hurston.\u00a0 Turtle Island Foundation, 1985.<\/p>\n

Sweat. Rutgers University Press, 1997.<\/p>\n

Tell My Horse:\u00a0 Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica.\u00a0 Lippincott, 1938.<\/p>\n

Their Eyes Were Watching God. Lippincott, 1937.<\/p>\n

Voodoo Gods: An Inquiry into Native Myths and Magic in Jamaica and Haiti.\u00a0 Dent, 1939.<\/p>\n

Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters. Harper Collins, 2005.<\/p>\n

Joint_Publications;<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life in Three Acts.\u00a0 HarperPerennial 1931; reprint, 1991.<\/p>\n

Papers;<\/strong><\/p>\n

The papers of Zora Neale Hurston are held by the library at the University of Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Biography; Writer; ethnologist; folklorist.\u00a0 Born January 7, 1891, Notasulga (moved to Eatonville, Florida, with her family as a child).\u00a0 Parents–John and Lucy Potts Hurston.\u00a0 Married– Herbert Sheen, 1927; Albert Price III, 1939.\u00a0 Education:\u00a0 graduated from Morgan Academy, Baltimore; Howard College, A.A., 1920; Barnard College, B.A., 1928; graduate study at Columbia University (studied\u00a0 with the anthropologist […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-g-i"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4582"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8325,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4582\/revisions\/8325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}