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Zora Neale Hurston was an influential author, anthropologist, and figure of the Harlem Renaissance....

A brief biography of Zora Neale Hurston, a Harlem Renaissance author and playwright.

Alice Walker, Ed. New York: The Feminist Press, Zora Neale Hurston.

Zora Neale Hurston was an influential author, anthropologist, and figure of the Harlem Renaissance.

-Zora Neale Hurston published four novels, numerous short stories and essays, folklore and three nonfiction writings.

She was born January 7, in Notasulga, Alabama.

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Title: Zora Neale Hurston

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Zora Neale Hurston
1891-1960
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Birth
Born January 7, 1891 in Notasulga, Alabama
HOWEVER
Throughout her life, she claimed she was born on
January 7, 1901 in Eatonville, Florida.

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Parents
Mother Lucy, former school teacher. Died in1904
when Zora was only thirteen years old.
Father John, a carpenter, sharecropper, Baptist
minister, and mayor of Eatonville.
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Schooling

1917, Morgan Academy in Baltimore to finish high
school.

1920, Howard University, received an associates
degree.

1925, Barnard College to study anthropology.

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New York

She was encouraged by many people to move out to
New York following recognition as a writer in a
New York magazine, Opportunity.

Once in New York, Hurston became a part of the
New Negro movement, later to be known as the
Harlem Renaissance.

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Return to Eatonville

She returned to Eatonville following her
graduation of Barnard Col