Birthday
1891/01/07
Day of death
1960/01/28 (69 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Notasulga, Alabama, USA
Also know as
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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.
(1928) Fieldwork Footage
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(1940) Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940
as Herself
(2005) Zora Neale Hurston: A Heart with Room for Every Joy
as Self (archival)
(2023) Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space
as Self (archive footage)
(2008) Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun
as Self (archive footage)