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Zora Neale Hurston Zora Neale Hurston was an amazing Afro-American author who was recognized for her ability to bring forth her cultural language and imagery in her writing. If not for Zora’s pioneering effort as a female black writer, the world of modern literature would have never seen the cultural insight of the African American culture in such an honest way. Zora was born on January 7, 1891 in Eatonville, Florida. Her father John Hurston was a community leader and was influential member of society. “His positions in Eatonville included: Baptist preacher, town mayor, and skilled carpenter. Thought John was a revered member of Eatonville he had its faults as well.” (Harold Bloom 60) John had other women in this life and often left his family alone for months. Zora’s mother, Lucy Potts Hurston was the hard driving force of the family. Lucy was a schoolteacher, who taught all her children how to read and write, which lead to seven out of her eight children earning a college degree. Zora’s education was comprised of six years of grammar school, high school, and several prestigious colleges. In 1907, Zora attended grammar school at Hungerford in Eatonville, Florida. In zora, career, american, african, zora’s, college, school, life, florida, eatonville, met, john, hurston, herbert, harold, first, education, bloom, black, years, wrote, wanted, stories, short, sheen, lucy, literature, literary, female, eight, during, drama, degree, cultural, began