Zora Neale Hurston
Known for: Writing
Born: January 7, 1891
Died: January 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.
