Editing Zora Neale Hurston (section)

==Marriages==
In 1927, Hurston married Herbert Sheen, a [[jazz]] musician and a former teacher at Howard. He later went to medical school and became a physician. Their marriage ended in 1931.

In 1935, Hurston was involved with Percy Punter, a graduate student at Columbia University. He inspired the character of Tea Cake in ''[[Their Eyes Were Watching God]]''.<ref>{{cite news|title=Folk Heroine|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/2003/01/12/folk-heroine/2a4a1c03-09a2-4cd0-8c2f-fba1b5b1169e/ |last=Lamar |first=Jake|newspaper=[[Washington Post]] |date=January 12, 2003|access-date=August 1, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180911152131/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/entertainment/books/2003/01/12/folk-heroine/2a4a1c03-09a2-4cd0-8c2f-fba1b5b1169e/|archive-date=September 11, 2018|url-status=live}}
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In 1939, while Hurston was working for the [[Works Progress Administration|WPA]] in Florida, she married Albert Price. They separated after a few months, but did not divorce until 1943.<ref name="oxfordreference.com" />{{rp|211}}

The following year, Hurston married James Howell Pitts of Cleveland. That marriage, too, lasted less than a year.<ref name="hurston5" />{{rp|27}}<ref name="autogenerated17" />{{rp|373}}

Hurston twice lived in a cottage in [[Eau Gallie, Florida]]: in 1929 and again in 1951.<ref name="ft110306">{{Cite news | first=Megan K. | last=Scott | title=Zora Neale Hurston's real home was in Brevard County – Famed author, folklorist spent many productive years in Brevard | url=https://www.floridatoday.com/story/life/2011/03/06/zora-neale-hurstons-real-home-was-in-brevard-county-famed/77153912/ | newspaper=[[Florida Today]] | location=Melbourne | page=1D | date=March 6, 2011 | access-date=May 9, 2020 | archive-date=October 15, 2022 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221015124022/https://www.floridatoday.com/story/life/2011/03/06/zora-neale-hurstons-real-home-was-in-brevard-county-famed/77153912/ | url-status=live }}</ref>