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Group Six--EWWG
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Zora Neale Hurston
- She was born on January 7, 1891 in Notasulga, Alabama.
- In 1925 she went to New York City, drawn by the circle of creative black artists, and she began writing fiction
- Zora Neale Hurston's best-known work was published in 1937: Their Eyes Were Watching God
- Zora Neale Hurston was the fifth child born to Lucy Ann Potts and John Hurston
- She worked as a playwrite, an anthropologist, a high school and college Drama professor, a director, a librarian, a producer, and in her latter and more impoverished years a maid.
- For several years, she traveled around the South, Hati, and Jamaica to collect local folklore.
- Hurston died in 1960 in the Saint Lucie County Welfare Home after suffering complications from a stroke
Sources
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http://womenshistory.about.com/od/hurstonzoraneale/p/hurston_bio.htm
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http://dclibrary.org/blkren/bios/hurstonzn.html
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http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA01/Grand-Jean/Hurston/Chapters/Zorabio.html
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/epstein2.html
Their Eyes Were Watching God
- Hurston's novel begins with Janie Crawford's homecoming.
- At one point, a photographer takes a picture of all of the children. While examining the photograph, Janie realizes that she is black; until then she had thought she was like all of the white children.
- Janie decides her conscious life began at age sixteen, when she has her first revelations about love, sexuality, and identity
- The story is told in flashback of her best friend Pheoby
- Janie was seen kissing a boy so her grandmother forces Janie to marry an older man but then Janie runs off
Sources
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http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/epstein2.html
- http://www.novelguide.com/theireyeswerewatchinggod/novelsummary.html
- http://www.answers.com/topic/their-eyes-were-watching-god
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