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9 unusual facts about Zora Neale Hurston


1928 Okeechobee hurricane

The effects of the hurricane on black migrant workers is dramatized in Zora Neale Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were Watching God.

Aishah Rahman

She wrote a blues musical A Tale of Madame Zora (1986), based on Zora Neale Hurston's life.

Eatonville, Florida

It contains 48 historic buildings including several related to the town's establishment as a home for African-Americans and its most famous former resident, Zora Neale Hurston.

Harper Perennial

Harper Perennial Modern Classics, a direct offshoot of the imprint, publishes eminent authors such as Peter Singer, Harper Lee, Zora Neale Hurston, Aldous Huxley, Russell Banks, Thomas Pynchon, Milan Kundera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Sylvia Plath, and Thornton Wilder among many others.

Peggy Pettitt

Another of her noteworthy roles was at Lincoln Center as Miss Lindsey in Mule Bone, Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes’ historical comedy.

Ruby McCollum

Zora Neale Hurston covered the trial for the Pittsburgh Courier from the fall of 1952 through Ruby McCollum's conviction just before Christmas.

Teacake

"Tea Cake" is the name of one of the characters in the Zora Neale Hurston novel Their Eyes Were Watching God.

The Gilded Six Bits

The Gilded Six-Bits is a 1933 short story written by Zora Neale Hurston, who is considered one of the pre-eminent writers of 20th-century African-American history.

Valerie Boyd

Valerie Boyd (born December 11, 1963 in Atlanta), is a widely published journalist, author, and cultural critic, best known for the critically acclaimed biography, Wrapped in Rainbows: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston.


Sikivu Hutchinson

Hutchinson examines the humanist beliefs of writers such as James Baldwin, Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen, A. Philip Randolph and Alice Walker.


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