Zora Neale Hurston Time line

1891 Zora Neale Hurston born on January 7 in Notasulga, Alabama.

1894 Hurston family moves to Eatonville, Florida.

1904 Zora's Mother dies on September 18.

1915-16 Hurston works has a maid for a singer.

1917: At 26, begins high school at Baltimore’s Morgan Academy, with credit given for previous course work.

1918: Receives high school diploma

1918-1919: Attends Howard Prep School

1920: Earns an associate degree from Howard University

1921: Publishes first story, "John Redding Goes to Sea," in a campus publication

1924: Publishes a short story, "Drenched in Light," in Opportunity Magazine

1925: Moves to New York (with only $1.50) at the peak of the Harlem Renaissance. Wins second prize for fiction in Opportunity Literary Contest with "Spunk" and her play Color Struck; publishes "Spunk." (Note: Langston Hughes won first place at this competition.)

1926: Publishes "John Redding Goes to Sea" and "Muttsy" in Opportunity Magazine and "Possum or Pig" in Forum Magazine.

1926: (July) helps Langston Hughes and Wallace Stevens organize publication entitled Fire!

1928: Graduates from Barnard College, publishes essay "How It Feels to Be Colored Me" in the World Tomorrow.

1930: Collaborates on a play, Mule Bone, with poet Langston Hughes.

1931: Publishes "Hoodoo in America" in the Journal of American Folklore; Disagreement with Langston Hughes over who authored Mule Bone; divorces Sheen.

1932: Produces a folk musical, The Great Day, in New York City.

1934: Publishes first novel, Jonah’s Gourd Vine.

1935: Publishes folklore collection, Mules and Men.

1936: March; Awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to study West Indian Obeah voodoo (Jamaica and Haiti).

1937: Publishes her most famous novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God.

1936 Hurston receives A Fellowship to study West Indian folklore in Haiti, she writes Their Eyes were Watching God in seven weeks.

1938 Hurston writes Tell My Horse.

1942 Dust Tracks on a Road.

1948 Huston returns to New York, where she is arrested on child molestation charges on September 13.

1950 Huston is working as a maid in Miami, Florida when her story " The Conscience of the court " is published.

1960 Huston dies and is buried in an unmarked grave in the garden of Heavenly Rest, in fort pierce Florida.