![]() After graduation at the age of 37, Hurston later pursued graduate work at Columbia with renowned anthropologist Franz Boas. Her admission was secured and expenses paid by Barnard cofounder and longtime trustee, Annie Nathan Meyer. Hurston also collaborated with Langston Hughes on the 1931 play Mule Bone, which was never performed during their lifetimes due to disagreements between them over authorship.Ī published short story writer by the time she came to New York in 1925, Hurston studied anthropology at Barnard, where she was the college's first African-American student. Her reputation was resuscitated after Alice Walker's 1975 essay, "In Search of Zora Neale Hurston," led to rediscovery of novels such as Jonah's Gourd Vine (1934) and Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937). ![]() She became one of the most widely read authors of the Harlem Renaissance but died penniless and forgotten, her eight books long out of print. Hurston combined literature with anthropology, employing indigenous dialects to tell the stories of people in her native rural Florida and in the Caribbean. "No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you." ![]()
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