Zora Neale Hurston

Writing - Born Jan 7, 1891 in Notasulga, Alabama, USA - Died Jan 28, 1960

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.