nown woman writer of the Harlem Renaissance. She wrote various magazines in the 1950's, but her increasingly conservative view concerning race relations effectively separated her from black intellectual culture (Bloom 103). According to Gallaher, Hurston did not write to "uplift her race" (qtd. in Gallaher). Hurston wrote simply because she grew concerned that African American folklore "was disappearing without the world realizing it had ever been" (Castillo 196). As a fiction writer, Hurston is noted for her metaphorical language, her story telling abilities, and her interest in and celebration of Southern black culture in the United States. Hurston became famed for her celebration of African American spirit and her efforts to preserve black folklore and music during the Harlem Renaissance and beyond. The words in her stories gave readers a sense of her extraordinary talent and originality. Her anthropological work provided the base for much of her writing, including the novel Mules and Men (1935), and Tell My Horse (1938), as well as many articles and parts of other novels. Mules and Men, one of the folklore collections was based on her field of research in the American South. Tell My Horse described folk customs in Haiti and Jamaica. From 1927 to 1932, Charlotte Osgood Mason, a wealthy patron of black arts, supported her research. Hurston's studies to
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