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When Hurston was twenty-six, she moved to Baltimore and claimed to be sixteen in order to qualify for free public schooling.

She left home at fourteen and lived an itinerant life for over ten years, working menial jobs and struggling to finish her education. His new wife was a woman whom Hurston despised. Her mother died when she was only thirteen, and her father quickly remarried. Zora Neale Hurston was born in Notasulga, Alabama on January 7, 1891, and moved to Eatonville, Florida three years later Eatonville features prominently in many of Hurston’s stories. She died impoverished in 1960, and was buried in an unmarked grave. Her most famous novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, first published in 1937, is widely read and taught, and was recently named to the BBC’s list of “ 100 Novels That Shaped Our World.” However, Hurston did not gain financial success from her writings during her lifetime, and her fame faded in the 1950s. Zora Neale Hurston is regarded today as one of the most significant American writers of the twentieth century. Portrait of Zora Neale Hurston, Eatonville, Florida, ca. The creation of accurate online bibliographies was a key component of our class effort to make the works of these women writers better known and easier to read. Today’s post is a bibliography compiled by Julia Costacurta, Class of 2020, a Biomedical Engineering major. For more about our public-facing work, please see our gallery of final projects and blog. For more about our series title, please see the first post. Through their short essays, bibliographies, and analyses of digital sources, students are providing to a broad audience accurate information about and appreciation for the “scribbling women” they studied. Posts in this series were written by undergraduate students in the spring 2020 Museums & Society class Scribbling Women: Gender, Writing, and the Archive. We used rare books, archival materials, and digital primary sources in the Sheridan Libraries’ collections to prompt and guide inquiries into the creation, reception, preservation, and legacy of texts from the 1820s through the 1930s by North American women who brought attention to race-, gender-, and class-based inequities.