Zora Neale Hurston
- Known for
- Writing
- Born
- January 7, 1891
- Died
- January 28, 1960 (aged 69)
- Birthplace
- 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.
Known For
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940
American Playhouse
Fieldwork Footage
Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space
Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun
The Gilded Six Bits
Ethnographic Films
Zora Neale Hurston: A Heart with Room for Every Joy
Kossula: Last of the Takkoi Slaves