EDITOR'S NOTE: To celebrate Black History month, we will be reposting our series on African Americans who had a major impact on Florida. This story originally published in 2020. When Deputy Patrick ...

Zora Neale Hurston was a prominent writer of the Harlem Renaissance known for her passionate stories about Black life in Florida. Author Alice Walker helped revive interest in Hurston's work in the ...

Nearly 30 years have passed since Alice Walker picked her way through the brambles of an overgrown cemetery in Florida searching for Zora Neale Hurston's unmarked grave. Hurston died penniless in 1960 ...

In 1973, Alice Walker searched for Zora Neale Hurston, the anthropologist, writer, and folklorist, perhaps now best known for her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. She was prolific in her time, the ...

Hurston's family settled in Eatonville in 1894 when she was 3. Hurston's most popular novel was “Their Eyes Were Watching God,” written in 1937. Pulitzer Prize winner Alice Walker, author of "The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Zora Neale Hurston was one of the more vibrant personalities in Florida's literary history. She wrote with passion, poetry and ...