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Zora Neale Hurston
Influences

Jeffrey Colvin: The wide-ranging influences that helped inspire Africaville

 December 10, 2019
Interviews

The Forties we thought we knew: Facing the Abyss with George Hutchinson

 June 27, 2019
Interviews

Michelle Dean’s Sharp celebrates ten women writers who did it their way

 April 10, 2018
News

A new “model of black selfhood,” and a heroine ahead of her time, in Their Eyes Were Watching God

 June 6, 2016
Interviews

Library of America interviews Rafia Zafar about the Harlem Renaissance

 August 26, 2011
News

Scholars rediscover three forgotten stories by Zora Neale Hurston

 January 7, 2011
News

Zora Neale Hurston: Video of her ethnographic work in Florida in 1928

 July 26, 2010
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