Zora Neale Hurston, a writer and folklorist, she is a product of The Harlem Renaissance, born in 1891 in Notasulga, Alabama. She attended Howard University from 1921 to 1924 and in 1925 won a scholarship to Barnard College, where she studied anthropology under Franz Boas, a German American anthropologist who is known as the father of American Anthropology. She graduated from Barnard in 1928 and for two years pursued graduate studies in anthropology at Columbia University. She also conducted field studies in folklore among African Americans in the South. Her trips were funded by folklorist Charlotte Mason, who was a patron to both Hurston and Langston Hughes. She would soon become a key figure of the Harlem Renaissance, best remembered for her novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God. She would make several trips to the American South and the Caribbean, documenting the lives of rural Black people and collecting their stories. She studied her own people, an unusual practice at the time, and during her lifetime became known as the foremost authority on Black folklore. Much appreciations to her and her legacy!