,.. .'" .
.. .. :






1 \ -. ." 'r
.E I'
.--, I







Working As Maid He


ser William Grant
,iled a first conm-
in of Bahamian
n Hollywood she
mount.
I's autobiography,
on a Road," won
Annisfield award.
published books--
d Vine," "Mules
heir Eyes Were
d." "Tell my
-s, Man of the
"The Voice of the
been translated
French, Italian,
t and Danish.
is she working

Snot money. Miss
-dly in straight-
nces.
her Daytona
it to finance a
lition into Hon-


ZORA NEALE HtURSTON


From the Miami Herald, March 27, 1950 Courtesy of John S.
Knight and the Miami Herald.


a ? ** .. t,

f .. :. ,-
1~- Js ,r:


Zora Neale Hurston (center) and friends, probably in Fort Pierce, Florida, ca.
1958-59. The photograph was damaged by the fire that destroyed some of
Hurston's manuscripts after her death. Courtesy of Department of Rare Books
and Manuscripts, University of Florida Library.


(furas, she vwai
fluent on her
months ago.
But she has
mestic for lack
"You can
mind so lonl
"Then you ha
hands. A cha
good for ever
"I was born
my hands.. I 1
keep house. W1
it for someboc
A writer has
every now and
a little."
Miss Hurstor
porarily "writt
novel and there(
now in the ha
and she feels
gears" for the
Her employ