https://www.zoranealehurston.com/resource_type/p.s.-insights-and-interviews/Recent content in P.S. Insights and Interviews on Zora Neale HurstonHugo -- gohugo.ioen-usThe Official Website of Zora Neale HurstonTue, 17 Apr 2018 12:47:14 -0400https://www.zoranealehurston.com/resource/zora-sums-up/Tue, 17 Apr 2018 12:47:14 -0400https://www.zoranealehurston.com/resource/zora-sums-up/Review of Dust Tracks on a Road The Saturday Review, November 28, 1942 By Phil Strong Zora Neale Hurston’s father was the preacher and chief factotum of Eatonville, Fla., one of the few villages of, for, and by Negroes in the United States. The old man was a powerful preacher and also a powerful man and husband; as a slave, says Zora, with the charming practicality which marks the manner of the whole book, he would have fetched a high price for stud stock.https://www.zoranealehurston.com/resource/zora-hurstons-story/Tue, 17 Apr 2018 08:29:33 -0400https://www.zoranealehurston.com/resource/zora-hurstons-story/Here is a thumping story, though it has none of the horrid earmarks of the Alger-type climb. Zora Neale Hurston has a considerable reputation as anthropologist and writer. When her autobiography begins she is one of eight children in a Negro family with small prospects of making a name for herself. Yet her story is forthright and without frills. Its emphasis lies on her fighting spirit in the struggle to achieve the education she felt she had to have.https://www.zoranealehurston.com/resource/a-protofeminist-postcard-from-haiti/Sun, 01 Apr 2018 21:01:36 -0400https://www.zoranealehurston.com/resource/a-protofeminist-postcard-from-haiti/by Valerie Boyd Zora Neale Hurston wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God under emotional duress. She’d kept the novel “dammed up” inside for months, she would recall, and she wrote it under “internal pressure.” By the fall of 1936, when Hurston began working on her transcendent tale of a black woman’s journey of self-discovery, she had already made a name for herself as a promising novelist and anthropologist. In 1934, Hurston had published her first novel, Jonah’s Gourd Vine-partly a fictionalized account of her parents' marriage-to critical acclaim.