Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston ( January 7 1891 - 28 January 1960 ) was a writer of Afro-American participated in the movement of the Harlem Renaissance , including her novel (translated into French under the title ).
She was born January 7, 1891 at Notasulga. She studied at Howard University and then at Barnard College where she graduated in anthropology in 1928. She participated in the Harlem Renaissance by producing the literary magazine Fire! with Langston Hughes and Wallace Thurman. She became interested in black American folk and Haitian voodoo.
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Education and career
Childhood
Hurston has always made sure to give conflicting dates of birth during her lifetime, and most were fictitious. University studies and anthropology Hurston began her studies at Howard University but had to stop after a few years for lack of money. While at Howard, she became a member of an early lineup of sorority Zeta Phi Beta. She later received a scholarship to go to university Barnard where she graduated in anthropology in 1928. She conducted ethnographic research under the guidance of the great anthropologist Franz Boas of Columbia University. She also worked with Ruth Benedict as well as another student in anthropology, Margaret Mead. In 1926, shortly after his graduation, Hurston became one of the lead compound of the literary revival, which originated in Harlem and took part in the creation of the literary magazine Fire! Alongside Langston Hughes and Wallace Thurman. This literary movement became the basis of the Harlem Renaissance. Hurston put into practice his knowledge of ethnography to illustrate folklore Afro-American in her book Mules and Men (1935) and in the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God (in French A black woman ) and the dance she created a group folk dance which featured the Southern culture of the United States and even gave a performance on Broadway. In 1937, Hurston received a Guggenheim Fellowship to travel to Haiti in order to conduct research on local culture. His work had a major importance because it manages to infiltrate the secret societies and could thus bring to light they were using drugs during voodoo ceremonies to enter into a trance, also a subject that interested her fellow dancer and anthropologist Katherine Dunham of the University of Chicago. In 1954 Hurston was unable to sell his books of fiction, but she was sent by the Pittsburgh Courier to cover the murder trial of Ruby McCollum, a black woman from a local gangster who killed a doctor racist. Hurston also participated in the drafting of Woman in the Suwannee Jail, a book by journalist and civil rights advocate William Bradford Huie. Hurston spent the last decade of his life freelancing for various newspapers and magazines. She worked in a library at Cape Canaveral in Florida, then was a substitute teacher in Fort Pierce where she died of a heart attack and was buried in an unmarked grave. In 1973, the Afro-American Alice Walker and the student literary Charlotte Hunt found an unmarked grave in the vicinity of where Hurston had been buried and decided to mark his name. The publication of the article of Walker In Search of Zora Neale Hurston in the March issue of Ms. Magazine 1975 Magazine was originally a renewed interest in his work. The house of Hurston in Fort Pierce is now classified as national heritage of the United States. Fort Pierce famous writer each year through various events such as hattitude or Zora Fest, a festival lasting several days in late April. His life and work are also honored each year in Eatonville for the Zora Neale Hurston Festival of the Arts and Humanities. Career
The Harlem Renaissance
Literary career
Deaths
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