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Zora Neale Hurston was an African American author born in 1891 in Alabama who became renowned for her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. She overcame obstacles like her mother's death at a young age and financial difficulties to graduate from college and publish numerous influential works exploring black culture. Hurston wrote extensively in her life but stopped in the late 1950s before her death in 1960, after which she was buried in an unmarked grave until writer Alice Walker brought renewed attention to her work.
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Zora Neale Hurston was an influential African American author born in 1891 in Alabama. She grew up in Eatonville, Florida, the first incorporated black town in America, which inspired many of her stories. After her mother's death, Hurston worked various jobs with little formal education. She later attended Howard University and began her writing career during the Harlem Renaissance. Hurston published several novels, stories, and an autobiography throughout her life, though she struggled with poverty for many years and died in 1960. Her most famous work, Their Eyes Were Watching God, brought her renewed popularity and critical acclaim after being reprinted in the late 1980s.
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Julia de Burgos was one of the foremost Puerto Rican poets of the early 20th century. She was born in 1914 in Carolina, Puerto Rico to a poor family. She was able to attend high school thanks to donations and graduated with a teaching degree at age 19. While teaching, she wrote educational plays and songs that were broadcast on the radio. Her love of literature led her to write poetry influenced by Puerto Rican poets. In the 1940s she lived in New York where her poetry was performed and honored. She struggled with health issues in her later years and died alone in 1953 in New York at age 39, with her body initially unidentified. She is now widely praised as an important Puerto Rican poet.
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Zora Neale Hurston was raised in an all-black community in Florida but left home at a young age. She worked various jobs and eventually attended Howard University, publishing stories. In the 1920s, she moved to Harlem during the Harlem Renaissance and became friends with writers like Langston Hughes. She was the only African American student at Barnard College where she studied anthropology, traveling the American South to collect folklore. Hurston published several novels and works of folklore in the 1930s-40s but then faded into obscurity, holding various jobs until her death in 1960. She was rediscovered in the 1970s by Alice Walker.
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Zora Neale Hurston was raised in an all-black community in Florida but left home at a young age. She worked various jobs and eventually attended Howard University, publishing stories. In the 1920s, she moved to Harlem during the Harlem Renaissance and became friends with writers like Langston Hughes. She was the only African American student at Barnard College and studied anthropology, traveling the South to collect folklore. Hurston published several novels and works in the 1930s-40s but then faded into obscurity, holding multiple jobs before dying in 1960. Her grave went unmarked until Alice Walker rediscovered her work in the 1970s.
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Harper Lee was born in 1926 in Monroeville, Alabama and was the youngest of four children. She grew up in Monroeville where her father was a lawyer and member of the state legislature. Lee first developed an interest in writing in high school and attended Huntingdon College. In 1956 she found a literary agent and worked to finish the manuscript for her novel, originally titled "Go Set a Watchman" and then "Atticus". Her novel To Kill a Mockingbird was published in 1960 and won the Pulitzer Prize. The book drew from Lee's own experiences growing up in Alabama and dealt with racial prejudices of the time.
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