Today in Black History

Zora Neale Hurston is considered one of the pre-eminent writers of twentieth-century African-American literature. Hurston was closely associated with the Harlem Renaissance and has influenced such writers as Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Gayle Jones, Alice Walker, and Toni Cade Bambara.

Some of her most famous works are:

Color Struck in Opportunity Magazine

Sweat
How It Feels to Be Colored Me
Hoodoo in America in The Journal of American Folklore
The Gilded Six-Bits
Jonah's Gourd Vine
Mules and Men
Tell My Horse
Their Eyes Were Watching God (which was made in  2005, the novel was adapted into a television movie of the same name starring Halle Berry. It was produced by Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Productions.)
Moses, Man of the Mountain
Dust Tracks on a Road
Seraph on the Suwanee
I Love Myself When I Am Laughing...and Then Again When I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader (edited by Alice Walker; introduction by Mary Helen Washington)
Sanctified Church
Spunk: Selected Stories

As a woman of African desent in America and a writer i am largely influenced by her and her works..i hope i make her proud!



info found on: http://www.zoranealehurston.com/& http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zora_Neale_Hurston