Zora Neale Hurston

Barracoon: The Story of the Last Black Cargo

Sprecher: Miles, Robin / Herausgeber: Plant, Deborah G.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Gesamtlaufzeit: 230 Min.
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781538519301
• Artikelnr.: 50452496

Autorenporträt

Zora Neale Hurston was a novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist. She was the author of four novels (Jonah's Gourd Vine, 1934; Their Eyes Were Watching God, 1937; Moses, Man of the Mountain, 1939; and Seraph on the Suwanee, 1948); two books of folklore (Mules and Men, 1935; and Tell My Horse, 1938); an autobiography (Dust Tracks on a Road, 1942); and more than fifty short stories, essays, and plays. She attended Howard University, Barnard College, and Columbia University, and graduated from Barnard College in 1927. She was born on January 7, 1891, in Notasulga, Alabama, and grew up in Eatonville, Florida. She died in Fort Pierce, Florida, in 1960. In 1973, Alice Walker had a headstone placed at Hurston's grave site with this epitaph: Zora Neale Hurston: A Genius of the South.