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Zora Neale Hurston. Photo from http://www.browsebiography.com/bio-zora_neale_hurston.html. Zora was born on 7 January 1903 in Eatonville, Florida. Zora was one of eight children born to Lucy Ann Potts, a country schoolteacher, and John Hurston, a carpenter & Baptist preacher . - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Zora Neale Hurston

Photo from http://www.browsebiography.com/bio-zora_neale_hurston.html

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Zora was born on 7 January 1903 in Eatonville, Florida

Zora was one of eight children born to Lucy Ann Potts, a country

schoolteacher, and

John Hurston, a carpenter & Baptist preacher

“Zora Neale Hurston.” Biographical Essay. Gale. 2 December 2010. <http://galenet.galegroup.com>.

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Zora had a difficult life at a young age. Her mother died when she was just a small child. Zora’s father and new step-mother didn’t want her so she was passed from relative to relative.

When she was just fourteen years old, she left Eatonville. She worked as a maid for whites to support herself. She always wanted to complete her education so she enrolled in Baltimore high school, Morgan Academy.

“Zora Neale Hurston.” Biographical Essay. Gale. 2 December 2010. <http://galenet.galegroup.com>.

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Zora Continues her Education

Despite her hardships, Zora perseveres attending Howard University in New York as English major. She received praise and recognition for her short stories and poems.

http://www.howard.edu/library/reference/Guides/Hurston/default.htm

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Zora arrived in New York at the time of the Renaissance, which was a black literary and culture movement in the 1920’s. Many

famous black writers were among Zora’s contemporaries, including Langston Hughes. Charles Johnson founded “Opportunity” a journal of black life. Zora became a

contributing writer to this publication.

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Zora later graduated from Barnard College, and by 1935 had become an accomplished writer. In 1937 she

published perhaps her greatest work, Their Eyes Were Watching God.

Library of congress

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Zora Hurston, half-length portrait, standing, facing slightly left, beating the hountar, or mama drum

Zora was a vibrant, colorful personality full of laughter

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Writer Zora Neale Hurston sings and dances with children in Eatonville, Florida, June 1935.

http://www.stetsonkennedy.com/npr_folklife.htm

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Unfortunately, Zora wasn’t paid well for her writings and finding herself penniless, she returned to Eatonville, Florida. Below is one of the last known photos of Zora – pictured center. Hurston died January 28, 1960.

http://libguides.santarosa.edu/content.php?pid=46378&sid=591606

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In 1942 Hurston published her biography, Dust Tracks on the Road. It was in that same year that she was profiled in “Who’s Who in America.”

http://www.noonewatching.com/archives/2006/12/woman_making_history_47_zora_n.html

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"ZORA NEALE HURSTON / `A GENIUS OF THE SOUTH' 1901 - 1960

NOVELIST, FOLKLORIST / ANTHROPOLOGIST."

Zora left behind a great number of literary works that have finally received the recognition the well deserved. Her epitaph below, reminds us of the great artist she was.

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Works CitedHemenway, Robert. Zora Neale Hurston: A Literary Biography. Chicago: University of Illinois

Press, 1980. Print

“Zora Neale Hurston.” Biographical Essay. Gale. 2 December 2010.

<http://galenet.galegroup.com>.