Zora Neale Hurston — novelist, folklorist and anthropologist — is honored for her artistry and celebration of black culture on a new 37-cent stamp by the U.S. Postal Service. It is the 19th in the Literary Arts series.

Featured is a portrait of Hurston in a 1934 photograph taken of her in Chicago by Carl Van Vechten. Her name appears boldly atop the stamp.

Hurston (1891-1960) was a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance, a flowering of black literature, music and the performing arts in the 1920s and ’30s. Although her writing went out of fashion in the 1950s, it enjoyed a dramatic comeback in the 1970s, in part because of the research and Hurston biography by Kansas University Chancellor Robert Hemenway.

She began her career as a writer in Washington, D.C., when she was a student at Howard University. Her first published story appeared in the 1921 issue of Stylus, Howard’s literary magazine. Hurston moved in 1925 to New York when the Harlem Renaissance was under way and soon became a favorite there with her wit and style.

This woman of many talents also wrote short stories, plays and an autobiography. Her novel, “Their Eyes Were Watching God,” portrayed a black woman’s search for identity and freedom.

Hurston was born in Notasulaga, Ala., but was raised in Eatonville, Fla., a self-governing, all-black town near Orlando. Many of her folklore items were about life in Eatonville.

The Hurston stamp will be released Jan. 24.