Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Media

Period of Performance

3/1/1981 - 9/30/1981

Funding Totals

$53,000.00 (approved)
$53,000.00 (awarded)


Zora Neale Hurston: A Biography

FAIN: GN-*0771-81

WGBH Educational Foundation (Boston, MA 02135-2016)
Raquel Ortiz (Project Director: July 1980 to October 1990)

To support scripting of a 90-minute filmed biography of the life and career of novelist, folklorist and anthropologist Zora Neale Hurston (190l-1960), one of the shapers of the black literary and cultural movement of the twenties known as the Harlem Renaissance.