Zora Neale Hurston #1452

Caption from poster__        Zora Neale Hurston     " I did not just fall in love.   I made a parachute jump.”    Zora Neale Hurston was the flamboyant author of the 1937 novel   Their Eyes Were Watching God, and a leading figure in African- American literature of the 20th century. She grew up in Florida,  but Hurston made her fame in New York as a writer and well-known participant in the rich cultural scene there in the 1920s and '30s (a period sometimes called the Harlem Renaissance). Hurston  studied anthropology at Howard University and Barnard College, and her work as a writer was intertwined with her studies of black folklore of the South. She wrote the novels Jonah's Gourd  Vine (1934), Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) and Moses, Man of the Mountain (1939); she published the studies on folklore  Mules and Men (1935) and Tell My Horse (1938); and she published an entertaining -- if not precisely accurate -- autobiography, Dust Tracks on a Road (1942). Despite her