Zora Neal Hurston
A woman of great passion and love for the art of literacy. A woman that loved to write books, sort stories, plays and essays. Would it not be hard to be considered an icon in a whole literacy movement? Well Zora Neal Hurston did those things and did not even get any glory for what she wrote in her time. She tried to show to the world what the black community went through and was going through. The woman that was so independent that she can moved a whole era and has now left her legacy on the world. Zora Neal Hurston was modernist writer that influenced her era by being the most prolific women in the Harlem renaissance. She was born January 7th, 1891 She said that she was born in Eatonville, FL but she was really born in Notasulga, AL. When she was about 13 her mother died but her father remarried in a shorter period of time than expected. She left her family after her mother died ad she moved to Maryland and attended the high school in Baltimore. She entered Howard University in Washington, D.C.; this is where her heart turned to literacy and she started writing. She wrote for the school’s literacy …show more content…
but she was out casted by the critics because they did not like that she tried to introduce authentic folk traditions into her writings and plays. She died in 1960 0n January 28th, in a welfare home in poverty. Her friends that she had at the home rounded up enough money to bury her but didn’t have enough to get her a head stone. So there for over 10 years she rested in an unmarked grave. Until Alice Walker read one of her books and got really interested in her writing. She wrote an essay about Zora called, “In Search of Zora Neal Hurston,” that she got published in Ms. Magazine in 1975. She also found out where she was buried and got her a head stone. Ms. Walker encouraged publishers to make new prints of Zora’s novels and other types of writing. So with the help of Alice Walker, Zora’s legacy can live
A woman of great passion and love for the art of literacy. A woman that loved to write books, sort stories, plays and essays. Would it not be hard to be considered an icon in a whole literacy movement? Well Zora Neal Hurston did those things and did not even get any glory for what she wrote in her time. She tried to show to the world what the black community went through and was going through. The woman that was so independent that she can moved a whole era and has now left her legacy on the world. Zora Neal Hurston was modernist writer that influenced her era by being the most prolific women in the Harlem renaissance. She was born January 7th, 1891 She said that she was born in Eatonville, FL but she was really born in Notasulga, AL. When she was about 13 her mother died but her father remarried in a shorter period of time than expected. She left her family after her mother died ad she moved to Maryland and attended the high school in Baltimore. She entered Howard University in Washington, D.C.; this is where her heart turned to literacy and she started writing. She wrote for the school’s literacy …show more content…
but she was out casted by the critics because they did not like that she tried to introduce authentic folk traditions into her writings and plays. She died in 1960 0n January 28th, in a welfare home in poverty. Her friends that she had at the home rounded up enough money to bury her but didn’t have enough to get her a head stone. So there for over 10 years she rested in an unmarked grave. Until Alice Walker read one of her books and got really interested in her writing. She wrote an essay about Zora called, “In Search of Zora Neal Hurston,” that she got published in Ms. Magazine in 1975. She also found out where she was buried and got her a head stone. Ms. Walker encouraged publishers to make new prints of Zora’s novels and other types of writing. So with the help of Alice Walker, Zora’s legacy can live