Hurston's works touched on the African-American experience and her struggles as an African-American woman. Also published during this time was Tell My Horse: Voodoo and Life in Haiti and Jamaica (1938), documenting her research on rituals in Jamaica and Haiti. Her short satires, drawing from the African-American experience and racial division, were published in anthologies such as The New Negro and Fire!! After moving back to Florida, Hurston published her literary anthropology on African-American folklore in North Florida, Mules and Men (1935) and her first three novels: Jonah's Gourd Vine (1934) Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) and Moses, Man of the Mountain (1939). While in New York she became a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance. In her early career, Hurston conducted anthropological and ethnographic research while attending Barnard College. Eatonville would become the setting for many of her stories and is now the site of the Zora! Festival, held each year in Hurston's honor.
Hurston was born in Notasulga, Alabama, and moved to Eatonville, Florida, with her family in 1894. Of Hurston's four novels and more than 50 published short stories, plays, and essays, her most popular is the 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. Zora Neale Hurston (7 January 7 1891-28 January 1960) was an influential author of African-American literature and anthropologist, who portrayed racial struggles in the early 20th century American South, and published research on Haitian voodoo.
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