Zora Neale Hurston

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Standard Name: Hurston, Zora Neale
Birth Name: Zora Neale Hurston
ZNH was an anthropologist who published articles on the subject of African-American folklore, and who also wrote plays, novels, short stories, political and cultural criticism, and an autobiography. She was a central contributor to the Harlem Renaissance , and since the rediscovery of her work in the 1970s she has been recognized as a complex, powerful African-American literary foremother.
Black and white, head-and-shoulders photograph of Zora Neale Hurston smiling. She stands, wearing a small black hat and a sweater with decorated neckline. Library of Congress.

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The original book was 855 pages long; it measured twelve inches by ten and half; it was two inches thick; it weighed eight pounds. The title, NEGRO, ran diagonally in large red capitals across...

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