Title: Zora Neale Hurston - Wikipedia
Headings: Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston
Contents
Biography
Early life and education
Work and study
College and slightly after
Marriages
Patron support
Academic institutions
Anthropological and folkloric fieldwork
Death
Literary career
1920s
1930s
1940s and 1950s
Posthumous publications
Atheism
Public obscurity
Posthumous recognition
Politics
Criticism
Thoughts on integration
Research and representation
Selected bibliography
Film, television, and radio
See also
References
Notes
Citations
Further reading
External links
Libraries and archives
Open-access repositories

Content: In her early career, Hurston conducted anthropological and ethnographic research while a student at Barnard College and Columbia University. She had an interest in African-American and Caribbean folklore, and how these contributed to the community's identity. She also wrote fiction about contemporary issues in the black community and became a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance. Her short satires, drawing from the African-American experience and racial division, were published in anthologies such as The New Negro and Fire!! After moving back to Florida, Hurston wrote and published her literary anthology on African-American folklore in North Florida, Mules and Men (1935), and her first three novels: Jonah's Gourd Vine (1934); Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937); and Moses, Man of the Mountain (1939). Also published during this time was Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica (1938), documenting her research on rituals in Jamaica and Haiti.