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She was born in Notasulga, in Alabama.
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When she was three years old, her family moved to Eatonville, Florida. The town was one of the first all-black towns incorporated in the United States.
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Her mother died, her name was Lucy Ann Potts Hurston and she was a teacher.
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She joined a traveling theatrical company, she visited with her company New York City during the Harlem Renaissance.
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She public her first story: John Redding Goes to Sea, in the university's magazine.
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She was studying in Howard University, but finally she was obligated to finish her studies in 1924.
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She won a scholarship to Barnard College, where she studied anthropology under Franz Boas.
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Hurston married Herbert Sheen, a jazz musician and a former teacher at Howard, who later became a physician.
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Hurston married Herbert Sheen, a jazz musician and a former teacher at Howard, who later became a physician.
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She graduated from Barnard.
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After her graduation, she studied graduate studies in anthropology at Columbia University for two years.
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Hurston collaborated with Hughes on this play, that never finished, and was published after her death in 1991.
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She published her first novel, Jonah’s Gourd Vine, which was well received by critics for its portrayal of African American life.
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A blend of travel writing and anthropology based on her investigations of voodoo in Haiti, and Moses
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This novel, firmly established her as a major author.
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She married Albert Price, while Hurston was working for the WPA in Florida.
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An autobiography, is much appreciated.
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Hurston married James Howell Pitts of Cleveland. That marriage lasted less than a year.
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The novel Seraph on the Suwanee, was her last book before her retire.
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She died in Fort Pierce, Florida for an hypertensive heart disease on January 28, 1960, and was buried at the Garden of Heavenly Rest in Fort Pierce, Florida.
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