Zora Neale Hurston News

Zora Neale Hurston came alive June 23 at Louisburg Library. Portrayed by Carmaletta Williams, she told stories of her life to seven people gathered at the library, as part of the librarya s adult summer reading program, co-sponsored by the Kansas Humanities Council.

Their Eyes Were Watching God , by Zora Neale Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God follows Janie Crawford on her journey of self-discovery through three marriages, finally finding the kind of love she longs for when she meets and marries "the roustabout" Tea Cake in her early forties.

A 1937 novel set in Florida has been picked for this year's community reading project this fall, the Forsyth County Public Library announced yesterday.

African-American female authors Gwendolyn Brooks and Zora Neale Hurston published novels that show their characters overcoming hardships in a variety of ways.

Home : Features : Opinions : Urban Literature: Wish It Would Disappear Urban Literature: Wish It Would Disappear 12-Jun-2009 Written by: Ivory Sherman Honestly, Urban Literature is not even worth reading.

Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper is trying a new approach with this year's One Book One Denver selection - he's letting people vote on what book they want to read from a list of 27 books that cater to almost every possible interest group, save those who would like to see a Colorado author selected.

Doug Watson portrays cowboy humorist and social commentator Will Rogers during the Kansas-Nebraska Chautauqua - "Bright Dreams, Hard Times: America in the Thirties." The Chautauqua included a series of historical and cultural events Thursday through Sunday in Ottawa.

PURPLE PATCH: The coloured me -Zora Neale Hurston I am coloured but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother's side was not an Indian chief.

After studying the menu at the Gramercy Tavern, a popular Manhattan restaurant that features New American cuisine, writer Mark Kurlansky says, 'Nothing screams out '1942.' ' He pauses, then adds, 'which may not be a bad thing.' There's no Mississippi molasses pie.

The American Place Theatre returned to The Whiting Tuesday night with another intimate presentation in its Literature to Life series.

Lucy Anne Hurston was only 3 when her aunt, social anthropologist and author Zora Neale Hurston, died, but she has taken the same path, documenting marginalized populations in the United States and aboard.

From Cheever to Murakami, debut novelist and coffee lover Benjamin Obler brews up the most aromatic mentions of coffee in literature Benjamin Obler guardian.co.uk , Wednesday 25 March 2009 14.51 GMT Stimulating ... A cup of coffee.

Muralists and performing artists will celebrate the Harlem Renaissance and the life of Zora Neale Hurston in a "New U" space that will be home to the restaurant Eatonville.

Just in time for Women's History Month, 7 Stages presents ZORA , the story of author and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston.

Ever heard of Jacqueline Cochran? How about Roxcy O'Neal Bolton? Both were pioneering Floridians.

People gather at the Junior Museum today to discuss one of Florida's most established African American authors.

Ottawa and Hesston will be the Kansas host communities for this summera s a oeBright Dreams, Hard Times: America in the Thirties Chautauqua.a The festival of learning will be in Ottawa June 3-7 and Hesston June ...

A Newberry College student stands in the doorway of the Blue Room where the read-in was held and mouthed the words to King and Malcolm X speeches.

The film follows Hurston, best known for her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, to the subtropical paradise that shaped her childhood and her life's work - the place to which she returned again and again over ...

African- American Writers: Legends of Literature By Karen D. Culley Literature is the cultural legacy that we must not forget.