Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
In the 1930s Hurston was the only widely published author on the Florida payroll. You go, girl. (Source)
In 1939, Hurston wrote an entire essay on the lives of turpentine workers, which you can read here. She really digs up some dirt in it!
For a time, Hurston worked as a wardrobe girl for a roaming Gilbert & Sullivan theatre group. Hey, we've all got to pay the bills somehow. (Source)
When Hurston died in 1960, her name on her gravestone was misspelled and read "Zora Neil Hurston." Talk about a burn. (Source)