In the 1920s and ’30s, Zora Neale Hurston was the sharp-witted ... Her falling out with Langston Hughes in 1931 over their co-authored play, “Mule Bone,” and their White patron, Charlotte ...
In 1928, Zora Neale Hurston traveled to Polk ... on the educated for poetry — unless the poet was Hurston’s friend Langston Hughes, who similarly drew on the experiences of working-class ...
At the height of the Harlem Renaissance, we find two bright talents: Zora Neale Hurston, a fiery novelist with a flair for eccentricity, and Langston Hughes, a cerebral poet who plans to ...
The Harlem Renaissance, as it would be known, was overflowing with the cultural contributions of luminaries such as Zora Neale Hurston, Duke Ellington and Langston Hughes. But it lacked a visual ...
Harsh knew writers like Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, Richard Wright and Zora Neale Hurston personally. Their work is also housed in the Vivian Harsh Research Collection, located at Chicago ...