Zora Neale Hurston
Biography
Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston was a novelist, folklorist and anthropologist. An author of four novels (JONAH'S GOURD VINE, 1934; THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD, 1937; MOSES, MAN OF THE MOUNTAIN, 1939; and SERAPH ON THE SUWANEE, 1948); two books of folklore (MULES AND MEN, 1935, and TELL MY HORSE, 1938); an autobiography (DUST TRACKS ON A ROAD, 1942); and over 50 short stories, essays and plays. She attended Howard University, Barnard College and Columbia University, and was a graduate of Barnard College in 1927. She was born on January 7, 1891, in Notasulga, Alabama, and grew up in Eatonville, Florida. She died in Fort Pierce, in 1960. In 1973, Alice Walker had a headstone placed at her gravesite with this epitaph: “Zora Neale Hurston: A Genius of the South.”
Zora Neale Hurston
