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Zora Neale Hurston purposefully gave conflicting stories about her origin. She was born in either Alabama or Florida sometime between 1890 and 1901. This complex woman did not support integration and opposed Brown vs. Board of Education. She spent her life working as a novelist, poet, playwright, storyteller, anthropologist and supporter of African American culture before her death on January 28, 1960.

Works

• Their Eyes Were Watching God
• Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-Tales from the Gulf States
• Mules and Men
• Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life in Three Acts
• Jonah’s Gourd Vine
• Moses, Man on the Mountain
• Seraph on the Suwanee

Recordings

• Florida Memory Project

Biography

• Zora Neale Hurston: A Life in Letters
• Dust Tracks on the Road: An Autobiography