Which author celebrated African-American folk culture in Eatonville, Florida?

• A. Zora Neale Hurston
• B. Ernest Hemingway
• C. F. Scott Fitzgerald
• D. E.B. White

Answer: (A)

Celebrating African-American folk culture in Eatonville, Florida, is a hallmark of Zora Neale Hurston’s work. Hurston grew up in Eatonville and drew on its rich Black community for folklore, songs, and everyday life, weaving those voices into fiction and ethnography. Her writing foregrounds dialect, storytelling, and cultural practices as a means of honoring and preserving a vibrant folk culture, with works like Their Eyes Were Watching God drawing on the world she knew in Eatonville. The other authors are known for different literary concerns—Hemingway for minimalist, masculine modernism; Fitzgerald for the Jazz Age and social critique; and White for children's literature and essays—so Hurston is the one closely tied to celebrating that specific African-American folk culture in Eatonville.