Zora+Neale+Hurston

=Zora Neale Hurston was born on January 7, 1891 in Eatonville Florida. She lived with her mother and father, her father was a mayor and a priest, but her mother did not have a job, so she was always at home taking care of Zoras 8 brothers and sisters. But when Zora was around the age of 9 her mother died due to unknown reasons. Then her father got re-married. Zora totally despised her stepmother and became very estranged of her father. Her father reacted by requesting for Zoras school to adopt her. That didn’t happen, the school could not do that. Zora had had enough of them, so she left her home and was on her own at the age of 14. When Zora left her home in Florida she joined a show company and worked as a maid and a costume manager. The cast members were very polite and welcomed her to their group. But in the year 1917 they were sad to see her go, but Zora knew that she needed to finish high school. She ended up graduating from high school in June 1918. She published her first short story called John Redding Goes To Sea in the year 1921. She worked multiple jobs day and night, and then in 1925 she finally had enough money to go to collage. So she moved to New York City and entered Barnard College. Then in 1927 she decided to go back and visit her hometown Easton Florida to get inspired. After her visit to Florida she went back to Barnard and graduated in the year 1928. Then she published her first real novel called Jonah’s Gourd Vine in the year 1934. The next year she published a folklore called Mules and Men. She then chose to travel to Jamaica and Haiti to learn more about their folklore. When Zora visited Jamaica and Haiti she must’ve really gotten a bunch of new ideas, because two years later in 1937 she published her most successful novel called Their Eyes Are Watching God. Which is a book about a young girl who is about 16 years old who makes a few mistakes, but her friend Phoebe is by her side trying to get her on the right path. After she published the book only two years later in 1939 she married a man named Albert Prince III. Then she wrote another really popular book called Dust tracks On a Road, it was the story of her life. Then one year later in 1943 Zora divorced Albert Prince III. He was 23, and she was 38. Things didn’t work out. I really wonder if Albert was only interested in her because of the money she was making off of publishing books. After Zora got divorced, the rest of her life didn’t appear to be very fantastic. In 1945 she suffered from chronic gallbladder and colon infection. Luckily doctors were able to cure it and she healed very well from the disease. But sadly, in 1948 Zora was charged for hurting a child. When Zora went to court something happened and the parents dropped the charges. But Zora was still really upset about being accused for something that had not happened. After that she was able to get a job again as a maid in Miami Florida. She lived the last 10 years of her life being a maid. She died in the year 1960, around the age of 69 because of a stroke. In the year 1973, thirteen years after Zora had died, Alice Walker found out and felt awful. She was the person who had started Zoras writing career. So she provided a grave stone for Zora.

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Whenever Zora traveled, she would almost always visit different churches and ceremonies to learn about the different cultures and beliefs of other people. She often interacted and participated in the ceremonies to, as you can see in the picture above she is beating a home made drum with a maraca and her hand.  In the picture to the above you can see that the ceremony she is at now is much more formal. She’s wearing what looks like a fairly expensive dress with gloves and a fancy hat. Zora always dressed like the people around her when she visited different countries.

CitationZora Neale Hurston, Discus, Britannican Online School, Comptonsby Brittanica, Web, Read on February 16, 2011Paul P Reuben, Chapter 9: Zora Neale Hurston, csustan.edu, Perspectives in American Literature, Research and reference Guide, Print, Read February 16, 2011. Patrica and Fredrick Mckissack, Zora neale Hurston, Berkley Heights New Jersey, Enslow, 2002, Print. Contemperary Black Biography, Galegroup, Detroit Gale 1992,Web15Feb2011, Web, February 15, 2011.

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= = = Zora Neale Hurston (Sunrise-January 7, 1891 Sunset- January 28, 1960) ==== Zora Neale Hurston was born on January 7, 1891. She was a Writer, Novelist, and Activist. She lived about five miles from Orlando, Florida, in a small town named Eatonville, an all-black town founded in 1886. Hurston lived with her mother and father John and Lucy Hurston. Her mother always told her to “reach for the sun”, which meant follow your dreams. This was her motto throughout her life. Hurston loved her mother very much. Her mother died when she was only thirteen years old. Her dad, John, quickly remarried another woman within six months of her mother’s death. Hurston and her stepmother did not get along well. So when she was only fourteen years old, Hurston moved out of her stepmother and father’s house. She went to high school and graduated in June of 1918, and attended Howard University which was an all-black University. After graduating from Howard, Hurston’s first job was at a Theatre company making costumes. ==== ==== Zora Neale Hurston wrote an autobiography titled, “__Dust Tracks on a Road”__. This book takes a very good look into her life. She really enjoyed writing this book because it told her life story; the good times and the bad. When Hurston got involved in the Harlem Renaissance, the high-spirited and charming woman associated with the most vocal and important black artists of the 1920-1930’s. Her works focused on the African-American culture and interrelationships within the African-American community rather than interracial tensions. Hurston is well known for creating beautiful literature. She was recognized for her work when she was in college by a by writing a short story titled “__John Redding Goes to Sea”__, in a magazine called //The Stylus//. After writing the story, she realized that she could be a writer. Hurston also was recognized for becoming the most published black female author of her time. Her most famous book is called __“Their Eyes Were Watching God”,__ She was involved in a lot of groups and organizations like the American Folklore Society, American Anthropological Society, American Ethnological Society, and Zeta Phi Beta. ==== ==== An author of seven books, more than fifty articles and short stories, a play writer, an Anthropologist, and a Folklorist, the Queen of the Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston died quietly in a welfare home on January 28, 1960. In 1973 Alice Walker placed a headstone on the site in which she guessed was Hurston’s unmarked grave. The stone said “Zora Neale Hurston, a Genius of the South.” ====

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