Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) was an influential African American author, anthropologist, and folklorist best known for her novel Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937). A central figure of the Harlem Renaissance, Hurston celebrated Black culture, dialect, and folklore of the American South, especially through the lives of strong Black women. Trained in anthropology under Franz […]