Hurston is widely considered one of the foremost writers of the Harlem Renaissance, a period of great achievement in African American art and literature during the 1920s and 1930s. Her fiction, which depicts relationships among black residents in her...

Born January 7, 1891 Eatonville, Florida Died January 28, 1960 Fort Pierce, Florida American short story writer, autobiographer, novelist, and folklorist One of the most memorable figures of the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston had a wit and a...

Zora Neale Hurston Born January 7, 1891 (Eatonville, Florida)Died January 28, 1960 (Fort Pierce, Florida) Author and folklorist Zora Neale Hurston was a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance, one of the most important cultural movements of the Roaring...

(born January 7, 1891, Notasulga, Alabama, U.S.—died January 28, 1960, Fort Pierce, Florida) American folklorist and writer associated with the Harlem Renaissance who celebrated the African American culture of the rural South. Although Hurston...

A prolific novelist, folklorist, anthropologist, and critic, Zora Neale Hurston was one of the inspiring personalities of the Harlem Renaissance. Her diverse interests intertwine in her most influential novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), where...

(born Jan. 7, 1891, Notasulga, Ala., U.S.—died Jan. 28, 1960, Fort Pierce, Fla.) U.S. folklorist and writer. Although she claimed to have been born in 1901 in Eatonville, Fla., she was in fact born in Alabama 10 years earlier, and her family...

Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891 – January 28, 1960) was an American folklorist and author during the time of the Harlem Renaissance, best known for the 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching...