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Hurston, Zora Neale

LC control no.n 79086453
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LC classificationPS3515.U789
Personal name headingHurston, Zora Neale
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Variant(s)Hurston, Zora, 1891-1960
Associated countryUnited States
Birth date1891-01-07?
Death date1960-01-28
Place of birthNotasulga (Ala.)
Place of deathFort Pierce (Fla.)
Field of activityHarlem Renaissance Vodou--Research Anthropology Folklore
AffiliationHoward University
Barnard College
United States. Work Projects Administration (N.Y.) North Carolina Central University Bethune-Cookman College (Daytona Beach, Fla.) Morgan College (Baltimore, Md.)
Profession or occupationAuthors Novelists Anthropologists Folklorists Editors
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Found inJonah's gourd vive ... 1934.
Moses, man of the mountain, 1985: CIP title page (Zora Neale Hurston) CIP data sheet (b. 1/7/1891) introd. (the 1900 census records have established that Hurston indubitably was born Jan. 7, 1891; d. Jan. 28, 1960)
IMDb, May 22, 2009 (Zora Neale Hurston; b. Jan. 7, 1891, Notasulga, Alabama, USA; d. Jan. 28, 1960, Saint Lucie County, Florida, USA; African-American novelist, anthropologist and folklorist)
Wikipedia, via WWW, Sept. 26, 2012 (Zora Neale Hurston; born January 7, 1891; died January 28, 1960 in Fort Pierce [Saint Lucie County], Florida; folklorist, anthropologist, novelist, short story writer; Associate degree, Howard University, 1920; B.A., Anthropology, Barnard College, 1927; established a school of dramatic arts at Bethune-Cookman College, 1934)
Zora Neale Hurston, Jan. 7, 2014 about (Hurston was born on Jan. 7, 1891, in Notasulga, Alabama, Hurston moved with her family to Eatonville, Florida, when she was still a toddler. Her writings reveal no recollection of her Alabama beginnings. For Hurston, Eatonville was always home, etc.))
   <http://zoranealehurston.com/>
African American National Biography, accessed via The Oxford African American Studies Center online database, July 27, 2014: (Hurston, Zora Neale; Zora Lee Hurston; fiction writer and anthropologist; born 07 January 1891 in Notasulga, Alabama, United States; claimed birth dates that varied from 1898 to 1903; most often she cited 1901 as her birth year, but the census of 1900 lists a Zora L. Hurston, born in 1891; graduated from Morgan College (1918); part-time student at Howard University (1919-1924); BA from Barnard (1928); employed as a drama coach by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in New York (1935-1936); editor for the Federal Writers' Project in Florida (1939); taught at North Carolina College in Durham (1940); died 28 January 1960 in Fort Pierce, Florida, United States)
OCLC database, 28 Feb. 2021 (access points: Hurston, Zora Neale, Hurston, Zora, Hurston, Zora N.; usage: Zora Neale Hurston, Zora Hurston)
Wikipedia, 28 Feb. 2021 (Zora Neale Hurston; born January 7, 1891, died January 28, 1960; American author, anthropologist, and filmmaker; Hurston portrayed racial struggles in the early-1900s American South, and published research on hoodoo; the most popular of her four novels, Their Eyes Were Watching God, was published in 1937; Hurston also wrote more than 50 short stories, plays, and essays)
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