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  1. Feb 14, 2022 · So Miss Fannie Hurst and Miss Zora Neale Hurston left the confines of Hurst’s West Sixty-seventh Street duplex and went driving. As Hurston writes, in an essay called “Fannie...

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  3. Oct 16, 2020 · After Zora entered Barnard, and desperately needed a job with flexible hours, Hurst hired the student as her live-in personal secretary — typing, chauffeuring and sharing confidences over...

  4. Zora Neale Hurston tells us that Fannie Hurst was born into wealth while Hurst pictures Hurston as born into abject poverty. The rented Cates Avenue house, where the Hurst parents lived for most of their lives, scarcely bespeaks wealth. Fannie recalls her annoyance when Aunt Selene misrepresented

  5. Feb 1, 2023 · February 1, 2023. In an essay for Slant about the new Blu-ray DVD release of the 1934 melodrama, Imitation of Life, Eric Henderson made a spot-on assertion about Fannie Hurst, the long-forgotten novelist who received what today would be nearly a million dollars for first serial rights to that story. Hurst, he wrote, “has languished in ...

  6. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Fannie_HurstFannie Hurst - Wikipedia

    Hurst's inspiration for the book was her own friendship with African-American author Zora Neale Hurston. However, Imitation of Life and the two films based on it provoked controversy due to their treatment of the African-American characters.

  7. Jan 17, 2023 · One of the ministers remarked, “the Miami paper said she died poor. She died rich. She did something.” Zora Neale Hurston was buried in an unmarked grave.

  8. Jan 30, 2011 · That two Jewish women, Annie Nathan Meyer and Fannie Hurst, who had success and influence in the New York social and literary scene, were able to underwrite and support Zora Neale Hurston is a...

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