Zora Neale Hurston

Known for Writing

Zora Neale Hurston's portrait

Details

Birthday: January 07, 1891

Deathday: January 28, 1960

Place of birth: Notasulga, Alabama, USA

Biography

Zora Neale Hurston was an American author, anthropologist, and filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-1900s American South and published research on hoodoo. The most popular of her four novels is Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937.

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