Hurston had once again to search for a vehicle in which to express herself. Her dramatic efforts had led nowhere, her ideas for new novels were rejected, and she had no more folklore to record.
According to Hemenway, "In a sense she was written out. A few years later, Hurston's writing career received another boost when Maxwell Perkins, the legendary Scribner's editor of Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Thomas Wolfe; agreed to work with Hurston. Unfortunately, he died two months later and Hurston was deprived of his masterful guidance. Hurston did go on to publish in her last novel with Scribner's, Seraph on the Suwanee , a departure from her usual cast of Eatonville characters.
For this novel, her heroes and heroines are white characters. Besides her difficulties in getting her work published, on September 13, , a mother accused Hurston of molesting her ten—year—old son, who was mentally retarded. Although Hurston's passport proved that she was in Honduras at the time, she was devastated when the Story was splashed across the African—American tabloids. She sunk into a period of depression, even though Scribner's stood beside her and hired lawyers to defend her.
She was acquitted of all charges when the boy confessed that he had falsely accused Hurston of the act. During the next decade, Hurston made her living by selling occasional articles to popular magazines and working as a maid. She became obsessed in telling the Story of Herod the Great and was deeply discouraged when Scribner's rejected the manuscript in Money became a gnawing problem, as well as Hurston's health. She was evicted from her Eau Gallie home in In the next two years, she was hired as a librarian at Patrick Air Force Base in Cocoa Beach, but fired 11 months later.
When she was fired from a substitute teaching position at Lincoln Academy in Ft. Pierce, she couldn't pay her rent. In , Hurston suffered a series of strokes and entered the St. Lucie County Welfare Home. She died on January 28, Patrick Duval rescued her manuscripts from destruction when her possessions were being burned after her death.
She was buried in an unmarked grave at the Garden of Heavenly Rest in Ft. Thirteen years later, Alice Walker located her grave and placed a grave stone on it, citing as a reason: "A people do not forget their geniuses. DeMattio, S. Mint Theatre Company. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Lillios, Anna. University of Florida. Norwood, Arlisha. National Women's History Museum, Pierpont, Claudia Roth. Walker, Alice. Magazine , March , pp. Email Address.
When Zora was in her early teens she became a wardrobe girl in a Gilbert and Sullivan repertory company a theatre company touring the South. Eighteen months later, with the help of a former employer, she enrolled in Morgan Academy in Baltimore, Maryland, in She graduated a year later and went to Howard University, where she completed a year and a half of course work between and She secured a scholarship which allowed her to transfer to Barnard College, where she earned her degree in From to she studied anthropology the study of human culture and folklore at Columbia University under Franz Boas, a well-known anthropologist.
In she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for travelling and collecting folklore in Haiti and the British West Indies. Hurston had a variety of jobs in addition to the writing recognition that brought her fame.
Hurston began her writing career while at Howard when she wrote her first short story for Stylus, a college literary magazine. She continued to write stories, and in won first prize in the Opportunity literary contest for "Spunk. In she received the Annisfield Award for the autobiographical Dust Tracks on the Road, a book about her life, which she wrote. Also in she was given an alumni award from Howard University. Hurston's most famous work is her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God , in which she created the portrait of an African American female, Janie, growing into adulthood searching for her identity.
Through a series of marriages Janie comes to know and define herself in terms of her relationship with whites. A month later, on February 4, George Washington was elected president by state electors and sworn into office on April 30, On January 7, , the Harlem Globetrotters basketball team travels 48 miles west from Chicago to play their first game in Hinckley, Illinois. The Globetrotters were the creation of Abe Saperstein of Chicago, who took over coaching duties for a team of African American players The confessed Colorado cannibal Alferd Packer is released from prison on parole after serving 18 years.
One of the ragged legions of gold and silver prospectors who combed the Rocky Mountains searching for fortune in the s, Alferd Packer also supplemented his meager income A massive mine explosion leaves nearly dead in Krebs, Oklahoma, on January 7, Southeastern Oklahoma was a prime location for mining at Six-year-old Suzanne Degnan is kidnapped from her home in an affluent Chicago neighborhood.
Just six days after the fall of the Fulgencio Batista dictatorship in Cuba, U. Despite fears that Fidel Castro, whose rebel army helped to overthrow Batista, might have communist leanings, the U.
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