![]() Hurston submits the short story "Spunk" and the play "Color Struck" to a literary contest sponsored by Opportunity and wins second place for both. Hurston's short story "Drenched in Light" is published in the journal Opportunity. "John Redding Goes to Sea," Zora Neale Hurston's first short story, is published in the Howard literary magazine Stylus. Hurston receives her associates degree from Howard. ![]() Hurston enrolls at Howard University in Washington, D.C. ![]() After graduation, she works as a waitress and a manicurist to earn money. Hurston completes her high school graduation requirements at Morgan Academy in Baltimore. She maintains the falsehood until her death. In order to qualify for a free high school education, 26-year-old Hurston lies about her age, claiming her birth year as 1901. It is said that Hurston and her new stepmother bitterly dislike each other.Īfter leaving home and school and working a number of odd jobs to support herself, Hurston moves to Baltimore, Maryland. Soon after, her father marries Mattie Moge, a young woman only six years older than Zora. Hurston's mother Lucy Potts Hurston dies. Incorporated in 1887, it is the oldest such town in the United States. The Hurston family moves to Eatonville, an incorporated, self-governed, all-African American town north of Orlando, Florida. She is the fifth of eight children born to John and Lucy Potts Hurston. Zora Neale Hurston is born in Notasulga, Alabama.
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