Biographical Sketch of Zora Neale Hurston in The Florida Negro Viola Muse Transcription, encoding and edition Minxia Lewis

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 USA Florida Jacksonville Biographical sketch of author Zora Neal Hurston found on p. 153 of the manuscript copy of The Florida Negro

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Zora NealNeale Hurston

Florida's most famous Negro woman writer was born in Mandarin. She was the recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship award in 1936, and in 1937 was given an extension of the award to continue her studies of native customs in Haiti. Miss Hurston was educated at Howard University in Washington and Barnard College, Columbia Univerity. Her books, in the order of publication are: Jonah's Gourd Vine; Mules and Men; Their Eyes were Watching God [gap]