The ability to build something meaningful, something that creates opportunity for others, is why people say, “only in America.” ...

has made her one of the most influential figures in American literature. Hurston and her work are celebrated annually during the ZORA! Festival held in Eatonville, Florida. Zora Neale Hurston was ...

She was 37 (though she made a habit of lying about ... Recording Expedition (AFC 1939/005), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress After Zora Neale Hurston dropped her Barnardese, she ...

Zora Neale Hurston has long been considered a literary giant of the Harlem Renaissance, but her anthropological and ethnographic endeavors were equally important and impactful. An in-depth ...