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Zora Neale Hurston was an African-American author who was born in 1891 in the all-black town of Eatonville, Florida.. She attended Howard University in the early 1920's and afterwards moved to Harlem were she attended graduate school at Barnard. She was granted a fellowship to study oral traditions in the south. After this money ran out, she was supported by wealthy white patrons from New York, yet this restrained her ability to write freely. Funding for the Harlem Renaissance disappeared during the depression and Ms. Hurston began to write full time. Though she wrote many novels from the early 1930's through the '40's, she had virtually now audience. She died in 1960 having worked as a maid for much of the last decade of her life. It was not until later that Zora Neale Hurston's true contribution to the literary world, and specifically the African-American field, was rightfully appreciated.
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