In the end, Hurston’s memory was kept alive by many individuals such as a young writer by the name of Alice Walker. She went to Florida and sought after her grave and placed a tombstone on Hurston’s grave, which remained unmarked until nineteen seventy-three. Two years later, Alice Walker wrote an essay named “In Search of Zora Neale Hurston,” in an attempt to revive her image to future generations (Boyd). So, from the time she was born, to the time she died, Hurston continued to make impacts on literature and other people around her, and even though she died penniless and alone, she did not die forgotten, her life and image living through her work.
