They marked it as hers. “After the journey to find her grave Alice Walker put a tombstone there that says, ‘Zora Neale ...

Zora Neale Hurston spent her final years in Fort Pierce after being evicted from her Eau Gallie home. She was buried in an unmarked grave at the Garden of Heavenly Rest. At the time of her death ...

Zora Neale Hurston may have been buried in an unmarked grave when she died in 1960, but her star has been rising, posthumously, ever since Alice Walker brought her back to public’s attention in ...

Zora Neale Hurston was born between the late 1890s and the early 1900s ... Despite her efforts, Hurston passed away in a welfare home in 1960 and was buried in an unmarked grave in Fort Pierce, ...

Her goal: to find Hurston’s unmarked grave and mark it. The headstone now reads, “Zora Neale Hurston, A Genius of the South.” That is a fitting description for the prolific and provocative ...

"Zora Neale Hurston is a name that ... lead the renaissance of Hurston's work by writing an article, finding her grave and adding a marker. Among other works published after her death, You ...

Zora Neale Hurston is shown in a portrait taken ... It’s now a well-known story that Hurston’s grave in Fort Pierce in a segregated cemetery was unmarked for years until the novelist Alice ...

Zora Neale Hurston’s lost epic ... “There are times—and finding Zora Hurston’s grave was one of them—when normal responses of grief, horror, and so on, do not make sense,” Walker ...

"She died rich. She did something." Zora Neale Hurston was buried in an unmarked grave. MCCLAURIN: As the story goes, when you die in a poor house, they burn your stuff. And a Black deputy sheriff ...

Zora Neale Hurston may have been buried in an unmarked grave when she died in 1960, but her star has been rising, posthumously, ever since Alice Walker brought her back to public’s attention in ...