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Zora Neale Hurston is considered one of the most important authors of southern African-American literature in the 20th century. Hurston, born in 1891, grew up in Eatonville, Fla., just north of Orlando. The award-winning author, anthropologist and folklorist is said to have been an important part in the Harlem Renaissance, where a wave of black writers, artists and playwrights attracted a mainstream audience in the 1920s and 1930s.
Among several novels, short stories and plays, Hurston's most recognized work is Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), which in 2005 was turned into a television movie starring Halle Berry and Ruby Dee. Since 1988, Eatonville has hosted a festival named a...
Among several novels, short stories and plays, Hurston's most recognized work is Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), which in 2005 was turned into a television movie starring Halle Berry and Ruby Dee. Since 1988, Eatonville has hosted a festival named a...
Zora Neale Hurston is considered one of the most important authors of southern African-American literature in the 20th century. Hurston, born in 1891, grew up in Eatonville, Fla., just north of Orlando. The award-winning author, anthropologist and folklorist is said to have been an important part in the Harlem Renaissance, where a wave of black writers, artists and playwrights attracted a mainstream audience in the 1920s and 1930s.
Among several novels, short stories and plays, Hurston's most recognized work is Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), which in 2005 was turned into a television movie starring Halle Berry and Ruby Dee. Since 1988, Eatonville has hosted a festival named after Hurston that celebrates black heritage and the arts. Hurston died in 1960.
Among several novels, short stories and plays, Hurston's most recognized work is Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), which in 2005 was turned into a television movie starring Halle Berry and Ruby Dee. Since 1988, Eatonville has hosted a festival named after Hurston that celebrates black heritage and the arts. Hurston died in 1960.
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This Sunday: Van Vechten's Renaissance, Watergate, Szymborska and more
Jacket CopyThis week's book coverage includes Emily Bernard's book on Carl Van Vechten and the Harlem Renaissance, Thomas Mallon's novel on Watergate and a remembrance of poet Wislawa Szymborska... -
The Bookish Life: Weaving memories into handmade books
Los Angeles TimesI make books. That's what I do. I made my first book about 17 years ago, a feat I consider a miracle. On a whim I took a class on making cased-in books with hard spines, and when I looked at the finished product I was astounded, as if I'd made a car with...Tags: Clubs and Associations, Julia Child, Newspaper and Magazine, Photography, Travel
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Stetson Kennedy dies at 94; writer exposed the KKK
Author and folklorist Stetson Kennedy, who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan six decades ago and exposed its secrets but decades later was criticized for appearing to exaggerate his exploits, died Saturday at a medical center near St. Augustine, Fla. He was...Tags: Jacksonville (Duval, Florida), Superman (fictional character), Broward Health, World War II (1939-1945), Unrest, Conflicts and War
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Book review: 'The Warmth of Other Suns' by Isabel Wilkerson
Special to the Los Angeles TimesThe Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration Isabel Wilkerson Random House: 622 pp, $30 It was an all-too-familiar dispatch from a particular time and place. The Clarks, a young black family of four, were trying to improve...Tags: Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Politics, Toni Morrison, Children, African Americans
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Bookstore of the week: Brand Bookshop
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'A Jury of Her Peers' by Elaine Showalter
A Jury of Her Peers
American Women Writers
From Anne Bradstreet to Annie Proulx
Elaine Showalter
Alfred A. Knopf: 608 pp., $30
The title of this, the "first literary history of American women writers ever written," explains Elaine Showalter, comes...Tags: Crimes, Alice Walker, Carson McCullers, Wars and Interventions, Book
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The Big Read is a national page-turner
There was no snow at the Huntington Library in Pasadena, but the four sled dogs tethered there seemed acclimated enough. One amiably licked the face of a child in a stroller. The hubbub wasn't much like the Yukon, but the dogs were there to excite...Tags: Culture, Dining and Drinking, Clubs and Associations, Death, Arts
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'Changing My Mind' by Zadie Smith
Changing My Mind
Occasional Essays
Zadie Smith
The Penguin Press: 306 pp., $26.95
Reviewing Zadie Smith's 2001 debut, "White Teeth," the critic James Wood lumped the blazing hot young British writer with no less than Salman Rushdie, David Foster...Tags: Education, Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Liberia, Celebrities, September 11, 2001 Attacks
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'A New Literary History of America' by Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors
Daunting as it may be to assemble a centuries-spanning assessment of any country, even one with a fairly linear march through history, how does one approach a culture as unstable, contradictory and contested as ours? Where do you start? Where do you stop?...Tags: John Adams, Cultural Development, Wim Wenders, Ken Burns, Bob Dylan
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Literary Haiti
Jacket CopySince last week's devastating earthquake in Haiti, the world's attention has turned to the country as it rarely has before. Yet it's been the focus of literary explorations for decades. In the 1930s, Zora Neale Hurston traveled to Jamaica and...... -
Dance review: Alvin Ailey at the Orange County Performing Arts Center
Culture Monster“Celebration” happened to be the unofficial theme for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre’s opening night program Tuesday at the Orange County Performing Arts Center, the first of four different slates of mixed repertory being presented through... -
Hart-felt statements about violence against women
Opinion L.A.Comedian Kevin Hart was probably upset about not being invited to the UCSD-area Compton Cookout, where white college kids apparently had a ball acting out their ghetto fantasies. So Hart, who has had roles in "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" and other stuff,...
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