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Life Story: Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960)

Harlem Renaissance Author and Anthropologist

The story of a Black writer and anthropologist who committed her career to studying and celebrating African American folklore and culture.

Portrait of Zora Neale Hurston

Carl Van Vechten, Portrait of Zora Neale Hurston, April 3, 1938. Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division, Van Vechten Collection, Washington, D.C.

Unidentified Woman With Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston

Unidentified Woman With Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston, 1927. Yale University Library, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Zora Neale Hurston

James Weldon Johnson, Zora Neale Hurston, 1927. Yale University Library, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.