Adulthood
Hurston was awarded a scholarship in order to attend Barnard College where she studied anthropology. She wrote several plays including The Great Day and From Sun to Sun up until 1934 when she published her first novel, Jonah's Gourd Vine. Two years later she began work on what would become her most famous novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God. She wrote the novel in just seven weeks while traveling in Haiti. Her career suffered in 1948 when she was charged with molesting a 10-year-old boy, even though she was able to prove her absence from the country at the time.