ORLANDO, Fla. - Today marks the 133rd anniversary of novelist Zora Neale Hurston's birth. Zora Neale Hurston was an author, anthropologist, and key figure of the Harlem Renaissance. Best known for ...

The Zoras will take place this year on October 17, kicking off a new tradition for the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation The Hurston/Wright Foundation is celebrating its 35th anniversary ...

Zora Neale Hurston’s lost epic. In The Life of Herod the Great, we get a novel full of intrigue, betrayal, and revolution. A depiction of Herod the Great. The first time I felt betrayed was when ...

Several years after traveling through the South with fellow writer Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes wrote an essay about an encounter with a young man escaping chain gang labor. Illustration by ...

Or about writers that embolden us to think of them as an “ancestor”? Why do we feel so moved by stories? Why do we seek ...

# I also learned about it by reading a book called Their Eyes Were Watching God, by well-noted American author Zora Neale Hurston. He said that a TV film collaboration between Oprah Winfrey, Quincy ...

The Harlem Renaissance, as it would be known, was overflowing with the cultural contributions of luminaries such as Zora Neale Hurston, Duke Ellington and Langston Hughes. But it lacked a visual ...

The Zoras will take place this year on October 17, kicking off a new tradition for the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation Michael Nied has been a digital news editor with PEOPLE since 2025.

The ceremony's new name is a tribute to Zora Neale Hurston, a visionary Black writer from the Harlem Renaissance. “Zora Neale Hurston’s enduring impact on the world is a testament to her extraordinary ...