Honoring Zora Neale Hurston

Jet, Jan 27, 2003

* HONORING ZORA NEALE HURSTON: This week the U.S. Postal Service honors the late novelist, folklorist and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston with the release of a 37-cent postage stamp. The stamp is the 19th in the USPS Literary Arts Series and recognizes the artistry and celebration of Black culture in her 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 50 short stories and essays. Hurston was reared in Eatonville, FL, attended Howard University (where she began her writing career) and moved to New York in 1925. She earned a bachelor's degree in anthropology from Barnard College. She died in 1960.

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