The Fort Pierce Home of Zora Neale Hurston

Interviewee

• Bill Dudley, Florida Humanities Council
• Sally Watt, Florida Humanities Council
• Arlena Benton
• Marjorie Harrell

Files

Publication Date

4-2006

Abstract

In this April 2006 report, reporter Sally Watt visits the Fort Pierce house where Zora Neale Hurston, the author of the 1937 novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, spent her final years. Arlena Benton, a member of the Benton family who owned the home, and Marjorie Harrell, a student taught by Hurston, contribute to the report.

Keywords

African Americans, Literature, Novelists, Authors, Zora Neale Hurston, Harlem Renaissance

Extent

00:05:03; 4 page transcript

Subject: geographic

St. Lucie County (Fla.); Fort Pierce (Fla.)

Language

English

Digital Date

2026

Media Type

Audio recordings

Format

Digital Only

Identifier

fhc_audio-1007

Creative Commons

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.

Recommended Citation

Dudley, Bill; Watt, Sally; Benton, Arlena; and Harrell, Marjorie, "The Fort Pierce Home of Zora Neale Hurston" (2006). Florida Humanities Audio Archive. 8.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/fhc_audio/8