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Zora Neale Hurston

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...  Show more »
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.  « Show less

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    Feb 17, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  1. This Sunday: Van Vechten's Renaissance, Watergate, Szymborska and more

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    This 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...
    2. Aug 14, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  2. The Bookish Life: Weaving memories into handmade books

    I make books. That's what I do.
    Los Angeles Times
    I 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

    3. Aug 28, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  3. 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 94.
    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

    4. Sep 19, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  4. Book review: 'The Warmth of Other Suns' by Isabel Wilkerson

    The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
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    The 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

    5. Jan 6, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  5. Bookstore of the week: Brand Bookshop

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    Jacket Copy's bookstore of the week: Brand Bookshop in Glendale, CA....
    6. Feb 15, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  6. 'A Jury of Her Peers' by Elaine Showalter

    A Jury of Her Peers
    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

    7. Dec 15, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  7. 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 interest in Jack London's "The Call of the Wild."
    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

    8. Nov 15, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  8. 'Changing My Mind' by Zadie Smith

    Changing My Mind
    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

    9. Oct 4, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  9. '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? And how, exactly, do you know when you're done?
    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

    10. Jan 18, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

  10. Literary Haiti

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    Since 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......
    11. Mar 3, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

  11. Dance review: Alvin Ailey at the Orange County Performing Arts Center

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    “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...
    12. Feb 19, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

  12. 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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an adaptation of Zora Neale Hurston 's literary classic...
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"Oprah Winfrey Presents: Their Eyes Were Watching God," in 2005 for television viewers.
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Colored Communities: Post Reconstruction to World War II Viewing the African-American Middle Class through its Own Lens is a unique photography exhibit opening at the Zora Neale Hurston National Museum of Fine Arts in Eatonville.
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