Through her letters, literature ... “I mean to live and die by my own mind,” she expressed. Zora Neale Hurston’s life and ...

In 1928, Zora Neale Hurston traveled to Polk County, Florida to collect folklore. She ended up at a lumber camp, where African Americans from around the South worked long hours in difficult ...

Hurston wasn’t drowning in the pelagic waters of tragedy; instead, she was refining the stories that ethnic groups had created, revised, and transmitted. She surely would have agreed with William ...

The ZORA! Festival, held annually in Eatonville, Florida, celebrates the life and legacy of author Zora Neale Hurston. The event features a variety of cultural activities, including literary ...

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 ...

Several years after traveling through the South with fellow writer Zora Neale ... where Hurston was conducting her first interviews with Cudjo Lewis, a formerly enslaved man whose life she would ...

Though the work was set in a completely different time and context so many of the themes were so relevant to my life at the time ... One of Zora Neale Hurston's partially burned photographs ...

Why don’t more Americans know Langston and Zora ... Hurston and Hughes collaborated on writing the comic play Mule Bone. Writing in Harlem, they wrote from their observations of Southern life.

Or about writers that embolden us to think of them as an “ancestor”? Why do we feel so moved by stories? Why do we seek ...

The Zoras will take place this year on October 17, kicking off a new tradition for the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation Michael Nied has been a digital news editor with PEOPLE since 2025.

Life in the 1920s was defined by many cultural ... Iconic works from the likes of Nella Larsen, W.E.B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, and more were all produced during this era.