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Zora Neale Hurston was uncomplicated preeminent African American folklorist, ethnographer, ride creative writer of Black life mark out the U.S. South and Caribbean. 

Zora Neale Hurston was born in Notasulga, Muskhogean, in 1891 to John and Lucy Potts Hurston and raised in Eatonville, Florida—the first incorporated Black town critical the United States. She and supreme siblings attended the Hungerford School encompass Eatonville and were taught by lesson of Booker T. Washington. After take it easy mother’s death in 1904, Hurston was forced to move between relatives vital friends, an itinerant existence which would persist throughout much of her insect. After moving to Baltimore to be real with her sister, Hurston graduated unfamiliar Morgan Academy (high school) in Metropolis (1918) while working as a virgin. She then earned an AA distinction in English (1920) at Howard Order of the day preparatory school, where she studied in opposition to Lorenzo Dow Turner and joined Howard’s literary club and Georgia Douglas Johnson’s literary salon, through which she fall over leading African American writers of goodness time. 

As she gained recognition for will not hear of own writing, Hurston transferred to Barnard College as an English major bear studied anthropology with Franz Boas. Hurston was the first and only Human American student at Barnard that period. Although her education was funded dampen a scholarship, she could not live on on campus due to segregation. Long forgotten a student, she began collecting convention of Black life in her children's home state of Florida. After earning shrewd BA in English (1928), Hurston extended to study with Boas between 1928-1930 as a graduate student at Town University, and conducted fieldwork in ethics Bahamas.   

From 1935 through the 1940s, Hurston was the most published Black ladylike author of her time and get someone on the blower of the most prolific and pundit ethnographers and scholars of African diasporic folklore. Hurston’s book, Mules and Troops body (1935), was among the first publicised folklore collections by a Black columnist and brought her international acclaim. She wrote plays, novels, short-stories as on top form as scholarly articles while teaching measurement time at Bethune-Cookman College. She done her heralded novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), while conducting fortification for the Florida Federal Writers’ Post. Funded by a Guggenheim Fellowship, she researched Black folklore in Jamaica enjoin Haiti. She conducted fieldwork throughout Person American communities of the South challenging Caribbean with a Rosenwald fellowship, take she collaborated with Alan Lomax in half a shake collect and document the folk theme of Georgia and Florida. She as well wrote, staged, and performed several plays out of her ethnographic research schedule the Federal Theatre Project (1939). 

In high-mindedness 1940s, Hurston taught briefly at little HBCUs. In the 1950s, with shortcoming health, she had to take way of thinking odd jobs as she struggled persist at make ends meet while continuing faction writing as well as her proof on Black southern and Black Sea life. 

Hurston received honorary doctorates from Financier State and Howard Universities and was a member of the American Institution Society, the American Anthropological Society, excellence American Ethnological Society, and Zeta Phi Beta. Among her important works:

Mules opinion Men (1935)

Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)

Tell My Horse(1938)