October 3 | 11 AM – 5 PM
Central Library | 500 McKinney St, 77002 | 832-393-1313
Join us for a day of speakers, music, book talks, and a film screening of “Their Eyes Were Watching God” as we celebrate the 8th Annual Books on the Bayou.
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Lucy Anne Hurston, the niece of literary luminary and Harlem Renaissance writer Zora Neale Hurston, is the author of Speak, So You Can Speak Again: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston. Though only three years old when Zora died in relative obscurity, Lucy Anne Hurston has, over her lifetime, compiled a detailed knowledge of her aunt’s life and work with a historian’s observant eye.
Lucy Anne Hurston’s own work as an academic sociologist, with field research in Jamaica and St. Kitts, among other places, provides her with a unique connection to her aunt’s perspective and life. She has been the producer and host of two documentaries on Zora and the director of a high school production of her play Mule Bone. Lucy Anne Hurston currently teaches sociology at Manchester Community College (CT) and lives in Bloomfield, Connecticut.
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