... . (Byrd) In 1934, Hurston published Jonah's Gourd Vine, her first novel, which was based on two people who were like her parents. In 1935, she published a book of collected tales entitled Mules and Men. In 1937, the most powerful novel Hurston has ever written, Their Eyes Were Watching God was published. (Dickenson) It is now one of the most widely studied novels in American Literature, though at ... the time of its publication it received little recognition. (Byrd) In 1938, she published a book of folk customs, Tell My Horse, and in 1939 published her third novel, Moses ... ...

• Word Count: 596
• Approx Pages: 2
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... . (Byrd) In 1934, Hurston published Jonah's Gourd Vine, her first novel, which was based on two people who were like her parents. In 1935, she published a book of collected tales entitled Mules and Men. In 1937, the most powerful novel Hurston has ever written, Their Eyes Were Watching God was published. (Dickenson) It is now one of the most widely studied novels in American Literature, though at ... the time of its publication it received little recognition. (Byrd) In 1938, she published a book of folk customs, Tell My Horse, and in 1939 published her third novel, Moses ... ...

• Word Count: 601
• Approx Pages: 2
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

... Bois, Jessie Fauset, Rudolph Fisher, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen, Alain Locke, Claude McKay, Wallace Thurman, Jean Toomer, Carl Van Vechten, and Walter White. W.E.B. Du Bois, in his book The Souls of Black Folk, rejected famed black educator Booker T. Washington's strategies of accommodation and compromise with whites in politics and education, because he perceived this kind of strategy as ... her metaphorical language, her story-telling abilities, and her interest in and celebration of Southern black culture in the United States, and this is shown in her best-known...

• Word Count: 925
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School