In the soon-to-be-published “The Life of Herod the Great,” Zora Neale Hurston reframes one of the Bible’s greatest villains. Over 60 years after her death, Zora Neale Hurston’s writing still astounds ...
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — Zora Neale Hurston may now be considered the most significant Black woman writer of the first half of the 20th century, but at the time of her death, family members say she was ...
Cudjo Lewis was getting old, and Zora Neale Hurston had something to prove. Hurston, the prolific African American author best known for "Their Eyes Were Watching God," was just starting her career in ...
Though Zora Neale Hurston is highly lauded now, few outside the literary scholar space know much about her journey and the intensive work that went into crafting her novels, some of which are now ...
ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON — The Zora Neale Hurston Writing Fellowship at Bard College, now in its third year, welcomes its cohort of five writers, Kay Bell, Theresa Lin, Vivian Rivas, Gwendolyn Shaw, and ...
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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. She’s viewed largely through the lens of her fiction, particularly “Eyes,” the story of a young woman striving for authenticity ...
A new documentary about Valerie Boyd, the acclaimed biographer of Zora Neale Hurston, will be screened this Saturday at the Tara theater in Atlanta as part of the BronzeLens Film Festival. Called ...
“Spunk,” a fable weaving together music and movement, is getting its first full staging since being rediscovered in 1997. By Salamishah Tillet Highlights include a Prince musical in Minnesota, ...
In addition to writing an acclaimed biography, she encouraged a generation of young writers, predominantly women of color, to pursue careers in nonfiction. By Clay Risen Valerie Boyd, who wrote a ...
Over 60 years after her death, Zora Neale Hurston’s writing still astounds — and soon, lovers of her work will have a new offering from the acclaimed Harlem Renaissance author. Per People magazine, ...