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ChronologyJanuary 7,1891Born in Eatonville, Florida, the fifth of eightchildren, to John Hurston, a carpenter andBaptist preacher, and Lucy Potts Hurston,a former schoolteacher.September 1917—June 1918Attends Morgan Academy in Baltimore,completing the high school requirements.Summer 1918Works as a waitress in a nightclub and a manicuristin a black-owned barbershop that servesonly whites.1918-19 Attends Howard Prep School, Washington,D.C.1919-24 Attends Howard University; receives an associatedegree in 1920.1921 Publishes her first story, "John Redding Goesto Sea," in the Stylus, the campus literarysociety's magazine.

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