Hurston

Like Morrison, who learned much from Hurston, she did not put the politics of race above the existential essence of black culture.

"I will fight for my country, but I will not lie for her. " - Zora Neale Hurston.

The early nineteen twenties marked the beginning of Zora Neale Hurston's life as a writer.

Today, Zora Neale Hurston has not been forgotten. She influenced other African-American female writers, including Alice Walker.

Hurston received praise for her work by both blacks and whites. But not everyone enjoyed her work.

During the next several years, Hurston traveled in Florida and the Caribbean to collect and write stories about what she saw.

In nineteen thirty-six, Hurston traveled to Jamaica and Haiti with a financial award from the Guggenheim Foundation.

In nineteen forty-two, Hurston published a story about her own life, called "Dust Tracks on a Road. "

Compared with Dust Tracks on the Road, the autobiography of Hurston, Jonahs Gourd Vine is a novel of distinct biographical style.

In 1927, Hurston began traveling around with a camera to explore the folk tales of Florida, Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi.

Hurston became the first black student to attend Barnard College in New York. She studied with anthropologist Franz Boas.

Hurston enrolled in Morgan Academy in Baltimore, where she completed her high school education.

Hurston published her first short stories at Howard University.

Because of Walker's efforts, Hurston's work was rediscovered in the nineteen seventies.

Their Eyes Were Watching God is Hurston's best-known novel, which was published in 1937.