Zora Neale Hurston, American novelist, short story writer, and folklorist (born 1891)

Zora Neale Hurston

American author, anthropologist, filmmaker (1891–1960)

Zora Neale Hurston was an American writer, anthropologist, folklorist, and documentary filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-20th-century American South and published research on Hoodoo and Caribbean Vodou. The most popular of her four novels is Their Eyes Were…