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Content: She lived
in controversy and died poor in 1960. When she died she was thirty 
years out of print. She was a writer, an anthropologist, and a 
folklorist. Hurston had a hard time with depicting blacks as defeated, humiliated, 
degraded, or victimized in her work. This is because she didn't 
experience herself or other African Americans in those ways. This
helped bring about much of the criticism she received. She wanted to 
portray black life in a way unconcerned with white people and unaware
of problems attributed to being black. She wanted to show them laughing,
celebrating, loving, and struggling. The work of Zora Neale Hurston was out of print when Alice Walker 
resurrected it in the 1970's. If it had not been for that it may have 
remained forgotten even still.