... writers/anthropologists during the Harlem Renaissance and beyond. Hurston is mostly known for her book Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937, but her first work was her 1934 publication of Jonah's Gourd Vine, and she published two more works before the release of her most famous work Their Eyes Were Watching God and in all Hurston wrote four novels and two books of folklore. Most of Hurston ... one stated above. One of the main writers of the Harlem Renaissance and probably the most known Harlem Renaissance writers would be Langston Hughes. Born in 1902, Hughes grew up to contr...

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... the recipient of the Guggenheim fellowship and decided to study in Paris. Cullen lived in Paris for two years and experienced relatively little racial discrimination there. Quicksand (1928), by novelist Nella Larsen, offered a powerful psychological study of an African American woman's loss of identity, while Zora Neale Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) used folk life of the black ... rural South to create a brilliant study of race and gender in which a woman finds her true identity (Horton, 2002). Men were not the only active writers during the renaissance. Zora Neale...

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