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From Notasulga, Alabama, she grew up in Eatonville, Florida. Hurston was educated at Howard University, Barnard College, and at Columbia University, where she studied anthropology. Hurston returned to Florida after college for an anthropological field study that influenced her later output in fiction and folklore. Hurston also collected folklore in Jamaica, Haiti, Bermuda, and Honduras. As a fiction writer, Hurston is noted for her symbolic language, story-telling abilities, and her interest in and celebration of Southern Black culture in the United States. Hurston’s book Of Mules and Men remains one of the few writings to chronicle folk tales thoroughly. Her best-known novel is Their Eyes Were Watching God, in which she tracked a Southern black woman's search, over 25 years and 3 marriages, for her true identity. Hurston's writings include novels, short stories, plays, journal articles and an autobiography, Dust Tracks on a Road. She consistently addressed issues of race and gender, often relating them to the search for freedom. In her later years, Hurston experienced health problems, and she died broke and unrecognized by the literary community. In the 1970s, many of her writings were rediscovered and republished. She was an important author during America's Harlem Renaissance. Reference: Black Women in America An Historical Encyclopedia Volumes 1 and 2, edited by Darlene Clark Hine Copyright 1993, Carlson Publishing Inc., Brooklyn, New York ISBN 0-926019-61-9 to be a Writer
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