Novels, including
Their Eyes Were Watching God
(1937), and nonfiction writings of American folklorist
Zora Neale Hurston give detailed accounts of African American life in the South.
In 1925, Hurston, one of the leaders of the literary renaissance, happening in Harlem, produced the short-lived literary magazine
Fire!! alongside
Langston Hughes and
Wallace Thurman shortly before she entered Barnard College. This literary movement developed into the Harlem renaissance.
Hurston applied her Barna…
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