- Zora Hurston was a fiction writer who was born in Notasulga, Alabama in 1891.
- She was raised in Eatonsville, the first all Black town in the US.
- She gathered a lot of folklore for her stories from Jamaica, Bermuda, Honduras, and from returning to Eatonsville for anthropolical studies.
- She is noted for her metaphorical speech, her storytelling abilities, and her interest in Southern Black Culture in the US in her writing.
- Her most famous book was "Their Eyes Were Watching God" which was about a womans search, over 25 years and 3 marriage, searching for her true identity.
- Her writing wasn't political but her characters use of dialect, and her portraying of black culture raised a lot of controversy among the black community.
- She went over issues of race in Gender in her career, often relating it to finding freedom.
- In her late years she had health problems and died unnoticed by the literary community but her writing was discovered in 1970's by a new generation of black writers.
- She studied at three colleges: Barnard university, Columbia University, and Howard University for anthropology.
- Her writings influenced writers of the harlem renaissance, and writers in the 1970's.
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Cole,
ReplyDeleteOUTSTANDING 4th quarter blog! Your posts are so interesting and your images are excellent. I like how your poem looks on your blog too. The only correction that I see is that you needed two examples about Chris per chapter, but your quotes are long and detailed. Excellent work!
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