Editing Zora Neale Hurston (section)

===1930s===
By the mid-1930s, Hurston had published several short stories and the critically acclaimed ''Mules and Men'' (1935), a groundbreaking work of "literary anthropology" documenting African-American [[folklore]] from timber camps in North Florida. In 1930, she collaborated with Langston Hughes on ''[[Mule Bone|Mule Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life]]'', a play that they never staged. Their collaboration caused their friendship to fall apart.<ref name="Publishers Weekly">{{cite web|url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-4792-1302-3|title=Fiction Book Review: Harlem Mosaics|work=Publishers Weekly|date=April 28, 2018|access-date=December 29, 2019|archive-date=December 29, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191229053720/https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-4792-1302-3|url-status=live}}</ref> The play was first staged in 1991.<ref name="Hurston, Zora Neale"/>

Hurston adapted her anthropological work for the performing arts. Her folk revue ''The Great Day'' featured authentic African song and dance, and premiered at the [[John Golden Theatre]] in New York in January 1932.<ref name="Kraut">{{cite magazine | url=http://sfonline.barnard.edu/hurston/kraut_02.htm | title=Everybody's Fire Dance: Zora Neale Hurston and American Dance History | last=Kraut | first=Anthea | magazine=S&F Online | volume=3 | number=2 | date=Winter 2005 | issn=1558-9404 | access-date=May 10, 2020 | archive-date=July 26, 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200726095607/http://sfonline.barnard.edu/hurston/kraut_02.htm | url-status=live }}</ref> Despite positive reviews, it had only one performance.  The Broadway debut left Hurston in $600 worth of debt. No producers wanted to move forward with a full run of the show.

During the 1930s, Zora Neale Hurston produced two more musical revues, ''From Sun to Sun,'' which was a revised adaptation of ''The Great Day,'' and ''Singing Steel.'' Hurston had a strong belief that folklore should be dramatized.

Hurston's first three novels were published in the 1930s: ''[[Jonah's Gourd Vine]]'' (1934); ''[[Their Eyes Were Watching God]]'' (1937), written during her fieldwork in Haiti and considered her masterwork; and ''[[Moses, Man of the Mountain]]'' (1939).

In 1937, Hurston was awarded a [[Guggenheim Fellowship]] to conduct ethnographic research in Jamaica and Haiti.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Zora Neale Hurston|url=http://outhistory.org/exhibits/show/aa-history-month-bios/zora-neale-hurston|last=Henderson|first=Kali|website=outhistory.org|access-date=2020-05-10|archive-date=October 3, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201003001428/http://outhistory.org/exhibits/show/aa-history-month-bios/zora-neale-hurston|url-status=live}}</ref> ''Tell My Horse'' (1938) documents her account of her fieldwork studying spiritual and cultural rituals in Jamaica and [[Haitian Vodou|vodoun]] in Haiti.