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Zora Neale Hurston

Eatonville-raised novelist and anthropologist whose Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) defines the Southern Black literary canon.

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Born 1891 in Notasulga, Alabama; grew up in Eatonville, Florida — the first all-Black incorporated town in the US. Hurston trained in anthropology at Barnard under Franz Boas, collected the folklore that became Mules and Men, and shaped the Harlem Renaissance.

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Eatonville, FL, USA

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