Zora Neal Hurston integrates folklore with fiction in her works. Zora Neale Hurston was an author during the Harlem Renaissance era who won the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards. She wrote a number of books, but “Their Eyes Were Watching God” was by far her most successful book that she wrote. “Their Eyes Were Watching God” was published in 1937 and had fifty-two editions and had a rating of 109,737. It was not only the most successful book she wrote, but it was also one of the most popular books of his time. It may be her most successful book that she has written, but it is the same as all of her other fiction books with uses of folklore due to its origin. It all started with “Jonah's Gourd Vine,” the first book in the collection. This book was published in 1933 as the first novel by the famous black novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist. It was highly praised as "a bold and beautiful book, with many priceless and unforgettable pages" by the famous Carl Sandburg, a great American writer best known for his poetry in the 1920s. "The story focuses on the rise of John Pearson from a poor background. , an illiterate sharecropper from Alabama, to the powerful and well-to-do moderator of the Florida Baptist Convention, to his subsequent fall from power and grace, to his painful resurrection and death. ( Masterplots II) Shortly after, in 1935, the second book in the collection “Mules and Men”. “In writing Mules and Men, Hurston not only found a way to establish a crucial bridge between his anthropological and literary ambitions, but also created a lasting treasure trove of stories that captured the authentic voices of black storytellers in the late South of the 1920s.” (Magill). The book is divided into two parts. Part one is...... middle of paper ...... Lucie County Welfare Homes, January 28, 1960, weeks after her sixty-ninth day of birth. She died of heart failure. She didn't have much money, but her close friends in her neighborhood came together to cover the costs of her funeral, but not enough for a headstone. That being said, I think it's obvious. this Zora Neale Hurston folklore with fiction in her books due to her origin, this includes where she grew up, who she grew up with, and also how she was raised, although it was the main influence that she loved writing about her personal experiences. She traveled and wrote about all their traditions. She combined their food, their music and their culture and put it all into a book. This made her one of the top performers and also led to her winning. awards such as the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards.