| Zora Neale Hurston's Home St. Augustine Florida |
| Zora Neale Hurston was a teacher for a very short time at Florida Memorial College during World War II This is where she stayed. October 1927 – Publishes an account of the black settlement at Fort Mose in St. Augustine, Florida, in the Journal of Negro History. The house is located on King Street in West St. Augustine. |
| Online Zora Plays at the Library of Congress Cold Keener, a Revue De Turkey and de Law: A Comedy in Three Acts Forty Yards Lawing and Jawing Meet the Mamma: A Musical Play in Three Acts The Mule-Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life in Three Acts Poker! Polk County: A Comedy of Negro Life on a Sawmill Camp with Authentic Negro Music in Three Acts Spunk Woofing For additional Zora plays see Collected Plays including Color Struck |
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| Zora Neale Hurston was born in Notasulga, Ala (January 7, 1891) and became a writer, anthropologist, and folklorist. At the age of 14 she traveled with a drama troupe - Gilbert and Sullivan. She went to Morgan Academy (graduated 1918), Howard University (associate degree 1920), Barnard College and Columbia University (studying under anthropologist, Dr. Franz Boas.) Her first short story was "John Redding Goes to Sea" in the Howard literary magazine. She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1928. Hurston wrote 3 novels: Jonah's Gourd Vine (1934), Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), and Moses, Man of the Mountain (1939), and an autobiography, Dust Tracks on a Dirt Road (1942). In the 1928 and 29 Hurston made a few ethnographic movies as a project director. She was a folklorist with the Federal Writers' Project in Florida. She died in poverty in 1960. Jean Parker Waterbury of St. Augustine was her agent. Zora Neale Hurston's first marriage to Herbert Sheen took place on May 19, 1927, in St. Augustine. She was hospitalized at Flagler Hospital with liver problems in 1929. In 1942, she came back to St. Augustine in April to revise Dust Tracks on a Road. Her play Color Struck (never produced) was set in part in St. Augustine. While at Florida Memorial College.Hurston had a controversy with the president of Florida Memorial school and with the U.S. War Department. She complained about inadequate living conditions for the Signal Corps that had been established at Florida Normal. While in St. Augustine she became a friend of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. |
| "Mama exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at de sun.' We might not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground." Zora Neale Hurston |
| "You are right in assuming that I am indifferent to the pattern of things. I am. I have never liked stale phrases and bodyless courage. I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than clink upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions." Zora Neale Hurston |
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| To find Zora Neal Hurston books contact ZORA NEALE HURSTON TRUST. Translation, film, and permissions requests may be submitted in writing via this link. Certain Hurston titles permissions are the responsibility of the Permissions Department at HarperCollins Publishers. THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD THE COMPLETE STORIES EVERY TONGUE GOT TO CONFESS -Negro Folk-Tales from the Gulf States DUST TRACKS ON A ROAD MULES AND MEN MULE BONE A Comedy of Negro Life by Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston TELL MY HORSE - Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica JONAH’S GOURD VINE - A Novel MOSES, MAN OF THE MOUNTAIN SERAPH ON THE SUWANEE - A Novel WHAT’S THE HURRY, FOX? THE SIX FOOLS THE THREE WITCHES LIES AND OTHER TALL TALES THE SKULL TALKS BACK - And Other Haunting Tales See the Zora Neal Hurston official web site. |
| Short Stories Sweat Assorted Zora Neale Hurston's - Glossary of Harlem Slang - Slang terms circa 1930's E Texts Mules and Men |