Zora Neale Hurston strongly influenced Alice Walker, who revived interest in Hurston. Their use of dialect adds similar immediacy to their candid voices and shrewd observations about...

By capturing the speech patterns and surroundings of their characters, these authors create dialect-rich, atmospheric novels. They illustrate sobering issues of race, gender, and economic...

Both Zora Neale Hurston and Ernest J. Gaines draw heavily on their Southern roots in crafting fully realized characters and settings. Lyrical, atmospheric prose and precise use of detail...

Like literary giant Zora Neale Hurston, contemporary novelist De'Shawn Charles Wilson writes realistic fiction about the lives of well-developed African American characters facing poverty...

As Zora Neale Hurston's biographer, Valerie Boyd portrayed her audacious, irreverent, and resilient subject with well-researched detail and an engaging writing style. -- Autumn Winters...

Toni Morrison and Zora Neale Hurston share a commitment to emotional honesty and a deep appreciation for the texture and timelessness of myth. Black culture and oral tradition, along...

Giants of the Harlem Renaissance, Claude McKay and Zora Neale Hurston realistically portray the lives of poor and working-class Black characters in their fiction (both), nonfiction...

Though J. California Cooper explores concerns arising out of a later period in American society, her poetic language and images and life-affirming heroines will appeal to readers of...

Though John Steinbeck was a white man and Zora Neale Hurston was a Black woman, their literature explores similar territory. Hurston focuses on race and Steinbeck focuses on class,...

Japanese Nobel Prize winner Kenzaburo Oe and African American author Zora Neale Hurston often focus on mythological themes and the effects of socio-political pressures on the characters...

These authors' works have the genres "african american fiction" and "horror"; the subjects "african americans," "african american women," and "race relations"; and include the identity...