Shanika and Nastassia

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Zora Neale Hurston
By Shanika and Nastassia Mr. Efird Block 3
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Born and raised...
Zora Neale Hurston was born on January 7, 1891?
She was born in Notasulga, Ala. At age 3 she
moved to Eatonville Fla. Her father was a
preacher and carpenter and her mother was a
school teacher.
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Education

• She attended Morgan Academy in Baltimore and
  completed High School
• 1918 She attended Howard Prep School in D.C.
• 1925 Attended Bernard College and studied
  Anthropology with Franz Boas.
• 1928 She attended Howard University and received
  a B.A. in anthropology from Barnard College.

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Success begins

• Her works celebrated blackness, and she became an
  enthusiastic contributor to the New Negro
  Renaissance literary movement.
• Though between 1927 and 1931 hurston collected
  substantial material from communication in Ala.
  And Fla. For several years she was unable to get
  any of it published.
• She published five novels and is best known for
  the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God

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Books she wrote

• Jonahs Gourd Vine was published in 1934.
• Their Eyes Were Watching God was published in
  1937.
• Moses Man of the Mountain was published in 1939.
• She is the author of eight books
• She wrote an Autobiography and 50 shorter works

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Pictures of Zora Neale Hurston
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Type of work she did.

• She used Southern Dialect in her work.
• Her Genres was mostly novels, stories, and
  autobiographies.

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The Death of Zora Neale Hurston

• She died on January 28, 1960 in St. Lucie County
  Welfare Home of hypertensive heart disease,
  buried in an unmarked grave in the Garden of
  Heavenly rest, Fort Pierce.

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Sources

• All Zora Neale Pictures came from
  www.lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp/matsuoka/AmeLit.html
• Information about Zora Neale Hurston came from
  www.nagasaki-gaigo.ac.jp/ishikawa/amlit/authorlist
  /listauthors.htm