Zora Neale Hurston

Known for

Writing

Gender

Female

Born

January 7, 1891

Age at death

69

Died

January 28, 1960

From

Notasulga, Alabama, USA

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.