While in New York, ZNH
made numerous significant connections, including those with author Fannie Hurst
, who employed her as a secretary, and Annie Nathan Meyer
, a trustee of Barnard College
(the women's college...
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Zora Neale Hurston
ZNH
published her first novel, Jonah's Gourd Vine, a re-telling of the story of her minister father and his marriage to her mother; Fannie Hurst
supplied an introduction.
The title has interesting implications. In...
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Texts
Hurston, Zora Neale, and Fannie Hurst. Jonah’s Gourd Vine. J. B. Lippincott, 1934.