Black History Month 2015 - The Harlem Renaissance - Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston (image source: wikimedia)

I've been doing the names mostly in order that they appear in the Harlem Renaissance wiki and it took until now to get to a female voice of the era.

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From Wikipedia:

Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891 – January 28, 1960) was an American folklorist, anthropologist, and author. Of Hurston's four novels and more than 50 published short stories, plays, and essays, she is best known for her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God.

In addition to new editions of her work being published after a revival of interest in her in 1975, her manuscript Every Tongue Got to Confess (2001), a collection of folktales gathered in the 1920s, was published posthumously after being discovered in the Smithsonian archives.

(The wiki is very extensive so I am only putting the intro here. I suggest reading it in full to get all the information and history on this amazing woman.)

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I had heard the name Zora Neale Hurston, but I haven't really explored her works. There is so much to her that I didn't want to paste the whole wiki here.  I guess I now have some homework to find some of her work and read it!