About Zora Neale Hurston
She highlighted racial struggles in the early‑20th‑century American South and published research on the folk practices of Hoodoo and Caribbean Vodou. In addition to her famous novel, she wrote more than fifty short stories, several plays, an autobiography, ethnographic studies and many essays. Her 1937 work Tell My Horse used early ethnomusicological methods, and her unique background helped shape the fields of ethnography, literature and Africana Studies.
![“Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men [and women].” quote by Zora Neale Hurston](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b4c/zora-neale-hurston-923_death_ships-at-a-distance-have-every-man-s-wis_14724.jpg)
