Although all of her books appeared in the 1930's, Zora Neale Hurston was undoubtedly a product of the Harlem Renaissance. She was one of the most extraordinary writers. Hurston became the most successful and most significant black woman writer of the first half of the 20th century. Over a career that spanned more than 30 years, she wrote and published four acclaimed novels including her most famous novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, two books of anthropology and folklore, an autobiography, numerous short stories, and several essays, articles and plays. Born on Jan. 7, 1891, in Notasulga, Alabama, Hurston moved with her family to Eatonville, Florida, when she was still a toddler, within the first year or two of her life. This all-black Eatonville, community, shaped her life and her writing to a significant degree. John Hurston, her father, was a carpenter and a preacher and was several times elected mayor of their town. Her writings, however, reveal no recollection of her Alabama beginnings. For Hurston, Eatonville was always home. During her life Zora Neale Hurston claimed her birth date as January 7, 1901 and her birth place as Eatonville, Florida. Actually she was born on that date in the year 1891 in Notasulga, Alabama.
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