ZORA NEALE HURSTON
A GENIUS OF THE SOUTH | NOVELIST | FOLKLORIST | ANTHROPOLOGIST
Author of Their Eyes Were Watching God and Barracoon: The Story of the Last “Black Cargo”, along with numerous other influential works.
Her book Barracoon tells the true story of Cudjoe Lewis, one of the last survivors of Africans brought illegally to the U.S. in 1860.
Did you know?
Zora also co-founded The Hilltop, the student newspaper at Howard University, a historically Black college in Washington, D.C., in 1924 — and it’s still in circulation today.
When Zora died in 1960, she was buried in an unmarked grave. In 1973, novelist Alice Walker and Hurston scholar Charlotte D. Hunt located her grave and commissioned a marker that reads:
“ZORA NEALE HURSTON / A GENIUS OF THE SOUTH / NOVELIST | FOLKLORIST | ANTHROPOLOGIST”
“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.” — Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston
(January 7, 1891 – January 28, 1960)
