Zora Neale Hurston

American anthropologist, author and folklorist Zora Neale Hurston began her literary career during the Harlem Renaissance. Her best known work, Their Eyes Were Watching God, was adapted to film in 2005.

Hurston's first novel Mules and Men was published in 1935 followed by Their Eyes Were Watching God in 1937.

Hurston spent the last decade of her life as a freelance writer for magazines and newspapers.

Hurston died of heart disease in 1960.

• 1934: Jonah's Gourd Vine
• 1935: Mules and Men
• 1937: Their Eyes Were Watching God
• 1939: Moses Man on the Mountain
• 1942: Dust Tracks on the Road
• 1948: Seraph on the Suwanee

"Zora Neale Hurston's work in a range of fields contributed greatly to the preservation of African-American folk traditions, as well as to American literature." — National Women's Hall of Fame

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• January 07, 1891: Zora Neale Hurston Born KavataL: There is controversy about her birth date!

• 1904: Zora's mother, Lucy Potts Hurston, dies; Hurston is forced to leave home and fend for self

• 1916: Maid/wardrobe girl for Gilbert and Sullivan Theater troupe

• 1917: Enrolls Morgan Academy (later Morgan State University)

• 1918: Graduates Morgan Academy and Enrolls Howard University

• 1920: Joins Zeta Phi Beta Sorority | Receives Associates Degree

• 1925: Scholarship to attend Barnard College

• 1927: Marries Herbert Sheen

• 1928: Divorces Herbert Sheen

• 1935: Works for Work Projects Administration as Folklorist

• 1936: Receives Guggenheim Fellowship

• 1938: Works for Federal Writers' Project in Florida

• 1939: Marries Albert Price III

• 1941: Works as consultant for Paramount Pictures

• 1943: Divorces Albert Price III

• 1944: Marries and divorces James Howell Pitts

• 1948: Sexual molestation charges brought against her

• 1949: Acquitted of false molestation charges

• 1952: Works on Ruby McCollum murder case for Pittsburgh Courier

• 1955: Shunned by peers when she speaks out against desegregating schools

• 1959: Suffers strokes, moves to St. Lucia Welfare home in Florida

• January 28, 1960: Dies

• 2001: The Gilded Six Bits (Short)

• 2005: Their Eyes Were Watching God (TV)

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