Title: Zora Neale Hurston | National Women's History Museum
Headings: Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston
Content: Throughout her life, Hurston, dedicated herself to promoting and studying black culture. She traveled to both Haiti and Jamaica to study the religions of the African diaspora. Her findings were also included in several newspapers throughout the United States. Hurston often incorporated her research into her fictional writing. As an author Hurston, started publishing short stories as early as 1920. Unfortunately, her work was ignored by the mainstream literary audience for years. However, she gained a following among African Americans. In 1935, she published Mules and Men . She later, collaborated with Langston Hughes to create the play, Mule Bone. She published three books between 1934 and 1939.