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Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston was born in 1903 in Eatonville Florida, near Orlando. She was the youngest
daughter and the seventh of eight children born to John and Lucy Hurston. ... Hurston had a very happy childhood. ... Her mother was her inspiration, she often told Hurston to "jump at
the sun". Her father later married a woman who had no intrest in children and tried to come in and change
the Hurston household. ... There are sources that say that Hurston joined a traveling show as a wardrobe maid to
one of the shows stars. ... Hurston wanted
to complete her education so she left her job at the show and enrolled in the high school department of the
Morgan Academy ( now Morgan State University). ... Alain
Locke invited Hurston to join the Howard Literary Society, and she soon beagn writing for tha Stylus, the
Howard University literary magazine. ... Johnson,
the founder and editor of the National Urban Leagues magazine Opportunity encouraged Hurston to
submit her work to Opportunity, which held writing contest. ... Hurston published her first novel,
Jonahs Gourd Vine, in 1934, followed by the successful folklore collection Mules and Men in 1935,
another novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God in 1937, another folklore collection, Tell My Horse, in
1938, and another novel, Moses, Man of the Mountain, in 1939. ... The 1950s were not that good for Hurston, she continued to write but, her works were rejected. ...
In Zora Neale Hurstons short storty "Sweat," which was published in November 1926, she shows
how the protagonist, Delia Jones, a black washerwoman experiences infidelity.
Approximate Word count = 1216
Approximate Pages = 4.9
(250 words per page double spaced)
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