Descriptive Record 
Enlarge Image1936-1941
1936
Awarded Guggenheim fellowship, March
Travels in Jamaica and Haiti
1937
September: Publishes Their Eyes Were Watching God, written in seven weeks the previous December
1938
Joins Federal Writers' Project (WPA), collecting Florida folklore
Spring: Comes to Washington, D.C.
Starts field work with anthropologist Jane Belo
October: Publishes Tell My Horse
1939
Travels to Orlando for a production, to Cincinnati for radio series, to Durham to teach at North Carolina College for Negroes
Collects Florida folk songs for Library of Congress and WPA
Brief marriage to Albert Price III, Jacksonville
Meets with Paul Green and Carolina Players
November: Moses, Man of the Mountain published
1940
Goes to Beaufort, South Carolina, to work on a Jane Belo research project
Returns to New York City
Portrait of Zora Neale Hurston. Carl Van Vechten, photographer. April 3, 1938. From the Prints and Photographs Division. Reproduction #: LC-USZ62-79898 DLC
Zora Neale Hurston smoking, Cross City turpentine camp, ca. 1939. Photograph by Stetson Kennedy, Stetson Kennedy Papers, reproduced with permission. Digital restoration by Ivy Bigbee.