Zora Neale Hurston Eatonville Map
Zora Neale Hurston Fast Facts
January 7, 1891-January 28, 1960
Born in Notasulga, Alabama
Moved to Eatonville, Florida in 1894
Folklorist, Anthropologist,Novelist, Social Activist, Playwright, Poet
Known as America's Favorite Black Conservative
Queen of the Harlem Renaissance
Graduate of Columbia University, Barnard College, Morgan State University, Howard University
Collected folklore & stories from Latin America, the Caribbean and the South
1934 Rosenwald Fund Fellowship revoked
2x Guggenheim Fellowship to conduct research on ethnography in Jamaica and Haiti