Every Tongue Got to Confess

Name: Every Tongue Got to Confess
Author: Zora Neale Hurston

by Zora Neale Hurston

Collection of African American folktales, jokes, and oral stories from fieldwork

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Zora Neale Hurston

Hurston was the most important woman writer of the Harlem Renaissance, combining anthropological fieldwork with literary genius to produce Their Eyes Were Watching God and a rich body of non-fiction about African American and Caribbean folk culture. Her memoir Dust Tracks on a Road is richly self-creating.

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