 Portions of the following program will be recorded. Headlines every 30 minutes. Breaking news at once. The Black Information Network. Miami's BIN 880. Born in 1891 and raised in Eatonville, Florida, Zora Neale Hurston is considered by many to be one of the foremost female writers of the 20th century. In 1918, Hurston began attending Howard University where she co-founded the student paper, The Hilltop. A scholarship to Barnard College of Columbia University followed.