Title: Zora Neale Hurston - Wikipedia
Headings: Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston
Contents
Biography
Early life and education
Work and study
College and slightly after
Marriages
Patron support
Academic institutions
Anthropological and folkloric fieldwork
Death
Literary career
1920s
1930s
1940s and 1950s
Posthumous publications
Atheism
Public obscurity
Posthumous recognition
Politics
Criticism
Thoughts on integration
Research and representation
Selected bibliography
Film, television, and radio
See also
References
Notes
Citations
Further reading
External links
Libraries and archives
Open-access repositories

Content: Hurston's works concerned both the African-American experience and her struggles as an African-American woman. Her novels went relatively unrecognized by the literary world for decades. Interest was revived in 1975 after author Alice Walker published an article, "In Search of Zora Neale Hurston", in the March issue of Ms. magazine that year. Hurston's manuscript Every Tongue Got to Confess, a collection of folktales gathered in the 1920s, was published posthumously in 2001 after being discovered in the Smithsonian archives. Her nonfiction book Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo", about the life of Cudjoe Lewis (Kossola), was published posthumously in 2018. Contents
1 Biography
1.1 Early life and education
1.2 Work and study
1.3 College and slightly after
1.4 Marriages
1.5 Patron support
1.6 Academic institutions
1.7 Anthropological and folkloric fieldwork
1.8 Death
2 Literary career
2.1 1920s
2.2 1930s
2.3 1940s and 1950s
2.4 Posthumous publications
2.5 Atheism
2.6 Public obscurity
2.7 Posthumous recognition
3 Politics
4 Criticism
4.1 Thoughts on integration
4.2 Research and representation
5 Selected bibliography
6 Film, television, and radio
7 See also
8 References
8.1 Notes
8.2 Citations
9 Further reading
10 External links
10.1 Libraries and archives
10.2 Open-access repositories
Biography
Early life and education
Hurston was the fifth of eight children of John Hurston and Lucy Ann Hurston ( née Potts). All of her four grandparents had been born into slavery. Her father was a Baptist preacher and sharecropper, who later became a carpenter, and her mother was a school teacher. She was born in Notasulga, Alabama, on January 7, 1891, where her father grew up and her paternal grandfather was the preacher of a Baptist church.