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In honor of Black History Month I’ll be highlighting great Blacks each day. Today I choose Zora Neale Hurston. Born in Alabama on January 7,1891, Zora Neale Hurston spent her early adulthood studying at various universities and collecting folklore from the South, the Caribbean and Latin America. She published her findings in Mules and Men. Hurston was a fixture of the Harlem Renaissance, rubbing shoulders with many of its famous writers. In 1937, she published her masterwork of fiction, Their Eyes Were Watching God. Hurston died in Florida in 1960 at the age of 69.