A True Renaissance Woman

Posted February 18, 2008, 10:35 am by Growing Bolder


With works including "Their Eyes Were Watching God" and "Dust Tracks on a Road," Zora Neale Hurston is considered one of the preeminent writers of black literature. But Hurston died broke and largely ignored in 1960. Now, the town of her birth holds an annual celebration, bringing the incredible story of her life to the forefront of public awareness.

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