Walker author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Color Purple never met Hurston.
NPR: Intersections: Crafting a Voice for Black Culture
Several years later, a neighbor lent Walker a copy of Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God.
In 1975, writer Alice Walker wrote an essay about her search for Zora Neale Hurston.
That prompted Walker to research Hurston's life and work.
Hurston was a trained anthropologist as well as a writer, and her stories about fruit pickers and hoodoo workers in sawmill and turpentine camps create an intimate portrait of southern black rural life.
Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston.
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