Zora Neale Hurston in Eatonville, Florida

Title

Zora Neale Hurston in Eatonville, Florida

Description

Depicted here is a picture of Zora Neale Hurston in her hometown of Eatonville, Florida. Many of her short stories and novels were said to be based off of Eatonville. Eatonville is a majority African American community, supplying Hurston a plethora of information and diversity in characters to work with. The story "Sweat" in Fire!! is a story that is based in the south and Eatonville probably had some influence on the characters in "Sweat"

Source

Lomax, Alan. Zora Neale Hurston. 1935. New York Times. Web. 15 Dec. 2015. <http://www.nytimes.com/
2008/09/29/us/29florida.html?_r=0>.

Publisher

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/29/us/29florida.html?_r=0

Date

1920s

Contributor

Gabriella Green

Files

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Collection

Citation

“Zora Neale Hurston in Eatonville, Florida,” Three Decades of NYC, accessed March 28, 2024, http://www.loyolanotredamelib.org/en203/items/show/160.