Birthday
1891-01-07
Deathday
1960-01-28
Place of Birth
Notasulga, Alabama, USA

Zora Neale Hurston

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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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