Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960) was a folklorist, author, and anthropologist. Her most famous book is the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. Ms. Hurston was more conservative than her counterparts such as Langston Hughes.
She was criticized for her use of the African American dialect in her novels. Decades earlier, Paul Laurence Dunbar, was criticized for the same thing. To me people DID talk that way so why shouldn't it be talked about. Ms. Hurston was criticsed for her conservative beliefs. Unlike her counterparts she opposed the New Deal, Brown vs. Board of Education ruling, and communism. She supported the self-help ideas of Booker T. Washington and foreign policy non-intervention.
Her books and writings are not reviewed much but I believe that they are worth going over again. Ms. Hurston in my mind is an underrated writer.
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