Literature
Zora Neale Hurston
1891 – 1960
Trained as an anthropologist at Barnard under Franz Boas. Author of Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), Mules and Men, and the posthumously published Barracoon, the only firsthand account of the last survivor of the transatlantic slave trade. Recovered for the literary canon by Alice Walker's 1975 essay in Ms.
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