Biographie de Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston was a novelist, folklorist, dramatist, ethnographer, and cultural anthropologist. An author of Four novels, two books of folklore, an autobiography, and over fifty short stories, essays, and plays, her numerous posthumous publications include The Complete Stories, Mule Bone (with Langston Hughes), Every Tongue Got to Confess, and Barracoon. She is also the author of the bestselling classic Their Eyes Were Watching God.
She completed her associate's degree at Howard University and graduated with her bachelor's degree from Barnard College. She was born on January 7, 1891, in No-tasulga, Alabama, and grew up in Eatonville, Florida. She died in Fort Pierce in 1960. In 1973, Alice Walker had a headstone placed at her gravesite with this epitaph : "Zora Neale Hurston : A Genius of the South."