World & Nation
Zora Neale Hurston, celebrated Tuesday in a Google Doodle, died in 1960 in a welfare home after giving the world some of its greatest literature.
Jan. 7, 2014
Obituaries
Valerie Boyd wrote a well-regarded biography of Zora Neale Hurston and edited an upcoming collection of Alice Walker’s journals.
Feb. 15, 2022
Books
‘Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space,’ PBS’s new ‘American Experience’ documentary, reveals a complicated early champion of the Black experience
Jan. 17, 2023
She died a pauper, buried in an unmarked grave.
April 7, 1991
Television
Actress Ruby Dee--who’s appearing this summer in the Spike Lee film “Do the Right Thing”--will portray American folklorist Zora Neale Hurston in “Zora Is My Name” for PBS’ “American Playhouse” series.
Aug. 28, 1989
Zora Neale Hurston, literary ethnographer of black life, proves a feisty subject for PBS’ ‘American Masters.’
April 9, 2008
Entertainment & Arts
The life and stories of Zora Neale Hurston, one of the best-known African American women writers, will be featured in a free one-woman show, “Zora’s Tales,” March 26 at the Central Library’s Mark Taper Auditorium.
March 19, 1995
As the writer’s legend spreads, new books reveal the ‘true’ Zora Neale Hurston.
March 31, 2003
A trailblazer and key figure of the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) defied categorization.
Dec. 5, 2004