Byline: Patricia O'Haire New York Daily News
She was a jazz baby, a happy-go-lucky pagan who described herself as the "Queen of the Harlem Renaissance." One of the most famous women writers of her time - the '30s and '40s - her name faded from public consciousness probably a lot faster than it should have.
Though it may not have looked like it at the time, there was always more to life for Zora Neale Hurston than music, rent parties and bathtub gin, a fact that's beginning to come to life slowly, theatrically, like grass after a cold winter.
Now, 30 years after her death, there's an Off- Broadway play about her life, "Zora Neale Hurston," at the American Place Theater, with Elizabeth Van Dyke in the title role, and a …
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