Zora Neale Hurston Accomplishments

Zora Neale Hurston once said, “There’s a year where you ask questions, and there’s a year when you get answers,” (Hemingway 45). “ Anyone depending on someone else’s gods is depending on a fox not to eat chickens” ( Hemingway 68). These quote shows that people need to to be patient and trust God. God will always answer questions when it is the right time. He will show where to go in life. Zora Neale Hurston has helped America by these reasons. Zora Neale Hurston showed in her life, her accomplishments, and major contribution to America. Zora Neale Hurston’s life was influenced by her early life. Her major accomplishments and contributions to American society, including publishing more books than any African American women in America,

Hurston was born on January 7, 1891 in Notasulga, Alabama (Encyclopedia britannica). Hurston was fifth of eight children (history.com). “ Her parents, John Hurston and Lucy Potts Hurston, had a great impact on her writing by their jobs and culture”(Editors of Encyclopedia). When she was a toddler, Hurston moved to Eatonville, Florida (biography.com). Her mother died when she was just nine years old (encyclopedia.com). Once she got older, being at home became much harder for her (Encyclopedia Britannica). Since her mother died, she had to do things that her mother would have done like clean the house or cook dinner (Editors of Encyclopedia). Hurston started school at the age of 13 (Encyclopedia Britannica). Despite having had some bad things happen in her life, she still got back up and pushed through

“Zora Neale Hurston was important to Americans because she was so determined and persevere through life’s challenges to make masterpieces” (Hemingway 21). “She has published more books than any other African American author” (history.com). Hurston’s style of writing contains folk stories from different places like the south, Caribbean, and from Latin America (Biography.com). She conducted anthropological research in Haiti (biography.com). Hurston died in 1950 because of hypertensive heart disease at a retirement home (Encyclopedia Britannica). When Hurston died, she died in an unmarked grave(biography.com). A decade later, her work was revived by Alice Walker and her essay “ In Search of Zora Neale Hurston”( biography.com). Now, generations of readers are interested in her work(biography.com). This is yet another example of how she contributed to American