Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Zora Neale Hurston
This site provides information and activities focused around Zora Neale Hurston's life and work. Check out this site featuring links to several sites focused on Hurston's work.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Zora Neale Hurston
Wikipedia offers a biography on African American author Zora Neale Hurston discusses why her work was prominently ignored compared with her comtemporary Richard Wright.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Zora Neale Hurston
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart provides opportunity for presenting the life of Zora Neale Hurston. Students read a passage about her life and then ask questions using the Activotes.
NC State University
Scribbling Women: American Female Authors
Alluding to a famous Hawthorne quote, "Scribbling Women" is collection of dramatized stories written by American female authors. Some resources may require a free membership.
Georgetown University
Georgetown University: Langston Hughes (1902 1967)
Excellent research site on Langston Hughes. Includes theme, perspective, form, style, audience, comparison and contrast of the famous Harlem Renaissance author's work.
Howard University
Howard University: Sterling A. Brown, a Literary Tribute
This tribute article discusses the author as a professor, critic and Poet Laureate.
Other
Reading Woman: Writers of the Harlem Renaissance
In this collection of book reviews, explore key works by writers from the Harlem Renaissance period. Authors include Dorothy West, Richard Wright, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston and others.
Curated OER
Zora Neal Hurston
This well-done work includes information on the author's education, background, career, and gives links to excerpts from her books.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: American Literature and Composition: The Harlem Renaissance
This lesson is an introduction to a unit on The Harlem Renaissance, the period between the end of WW I through mid 1930s when African Americans were recognized for their literature, music, and art. It discusses their themes and lists...
Varsity Tutors
Varsity Tutors: Web English Teacher: Langston Hughes
This resource focuses on the works of famous African-American author, Langston Hughes.
University at Buffalo
University at Buffalo: Helene Johnson Poetry
This site, which is provided for by the University at Buffalo, gives the text of three of the poems of this famous Harlem Renaissance author.
Academy of American Poets
Poets.org: Sterling A. Brown
Excellent biography citing influences on the famous author's work. Links to contemporaries of the era.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Their Eyes Were Watching God
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is a great source for discussing literature questions about Zora Neale Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were Watching God.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Their Eyes Were Watching God
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart provides quiz questions about chapter's 1-4 in Zora Neale Hurston's novel Their Eyes Were Watching God.
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Modern American Poetry: Gwendolyn Brooks, Biography
Detailed account of the writer's life. Contains references to contemporaries, influences and motivations in her career.
Cengage Learning
Houghton Mifflin: Gwendolyn Brooks, Literary Analysis
Here you will find theme, perspective, form, style, and contrast comparison. Good research material!
PBS
Literature & Life: Renaissance
Some of the African-American writers and poets who were prominent in the early part of the twentieth century are featured on this page. They were important voices during what became known as the 'black Renaissance'. Here, you can listen...
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Alice Walker
A brief biography on African American author Alice Walker is provided along with an extensive bibliography.
Curated OER
Click to Buy This Book
This well-done work includes information on the author's education, background, career, and gives links to excerpts from her books.
Curated OER
Click to Order This Book
This well-done work includes information on the author's education, background, career, and gives links to excerpts from her books.
Curated OER
Click to Order This Book
This well-done work includes information on the author's education, background, career, and gives links to excerpts from her books.
Curated OER
Click to Buy This Book
This well-done work includes information on the author's education, background, career, and gives links to excerpts from her books.