Editing Zora Neale Hurston (section)

==Patronage and support==
When foundation grants ended during the [[Great Depression]], Hurston and her friend Langston Hughes both relied on the patronage of philanthropist [[Charlotte Osgood Mason]], a white literary patron.<ref name="taylor"/><ref name="manuel" /><ref name="horner">Horner, Shirley. [https://www.nytimes.com/1986/02/16/nyregion/about-books.html "About Books"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161112033401/http://www.nytimes.com/1986/02/16/nyregion/about-books.html |date=November 12, 2016 }}, ''[[The New York Times]]'', February 16, 1986. Accessed March 5, 2011. "For many years, Hughes enjoyed the patronage of "an aged, well-preserved white dowager of enormous wealth and influence", Charlotte Mason..." and "Dr. [David Levering] Lewis said that his research 'points out that, thanks to Mrs. Mason's generosity, Hughes lived in the early 1930s in a one-family house in Westfield, where his neighbor was another of Harlem's luminaries, Zora Neale Hurston.'"</ref> During the 1930s, Hurston was a resident of [[Westfield, New Jersey]], a suburb of New York, where her friend Hughes was among her neighbors.<ref name="taylor">{{cite book |last=Taylor |first=Yuval |year=2019 |title=Zora and Langston |publisher=W.W. Norton & Company |isbn=978-0393243918}}</ref><ref name="manuel">{{cite journal|url=https://www.questia.com/library/journal/1G1-74410616/mule-bone-langston-hughes-and-zora-neale-hurston-s |url-access=subscription|title=Mule Bone: Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston's Dream Deferred of an African-American Theatre of the Black Word|last=Manuel|first=Carme|journal=[[African American Review]]|volume=35|issue=1|pages=77–92|date=22 March 2001|access-date=5 March 2011|quote=In February 1930, Hurston headed north, settling in Westfield, New Jersey. Godmother Mason ([[Charlotte Osgood Mason|Mrs. Rufus Osgood Mason]], their white protector) had selected Westfield, safely removed from the distractions of New York City, as a suitable place for both Hurston and Hughes to work.|doi=10.2307/2903336|jstor=2903336 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190412144624/https://www.questia.com/library/journal/1G1-74410616/mule-bone-langston-hughes-and-zora-neale-hurston-s |archive-date=April 12, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="horner"/>