@sisterbellami, Black Royalty, wrote:

[Zora Neale Hurston's] status as a literary hero is due in large part to Alice Walker

[This is corroborated by the below.

'Her novels went relatively unrecognized by the literary world for

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decades. In 1975, fifteen years after Hurston's death, interest in her work was revived after author Alice Walker published an article, "In Search of Zora Neale Hurston" (later retitled "Looking for Zora"), in Ms. magazine'

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zora_Neale_Hurston ]

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Zora Neale Hurston - Wikipedia