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Content: Mrs. Mason was extremely controlling and was a large factor
concerning what Hurston did and did not write about and publish. Hurston lived in New York during different times in her career from 1925
on, and joined the Harlem Renaissance. She was one of the shapers of 
the black literary and cultural movement of the twenties. Hurston 
received a lot of criticism in her time by other writers, some of whom
were also involved in the Harlem Renaissance. Langston Hughes, an 
important black author of the period was supported early on by the same 
white woman as Hurston but still offered harsh criticism toward her,
regarding her career. Darwin Turner was a critic of Hurston's work
who tended to primarily base his critique of her work on his person 
views of her personality. He said she was a "quick-tempered woman, 
arrogant toward her peers, obsequious toward her supposed superiors,
desperate for recognition and reassurance to assuage her feelings of 
inferiority" (1979). Darwin Turner states that all of Hurston's work 
must be looked at in regards to the above statement. When Darwin Turner
critiques an African American male writer of that time period, Jean 
Toomer, he mentions nothing of Toomer's marriage to a white woman or
that at one point in his career he refused to be identified with other 
blacks. Turner skirts this issue and says that Toomer's insisting that
he wasn't a "Negro" or Caucasian- but a member of the "American" race 
is "philosophically viable and utterly sincere" (1979).