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Person · 1891–1960

Zora Neale Hurston

The novelist and anthropologist whose "Their Eyes Were Watching God" became a cornerstone of American literature.

A pillar of the [[harlem-renaissance]] and [[black-literature]].

Zora Neale Hurston combined a novelist's gift with an anthropologist's ear, collecting Black folklore across the South and the Caribbean and rendering it in luminous fiction. Neglected in her lifetime, she was rediscovered as one of the great American writers.

The Harlem RenaissanceLiterature

On the timeline

  1. March 1925
    The Harlem Renaissance flowers

    Alain Locke's "The New Negro" anthology announces a generation of Black artistic genius.

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