Zora Neale Hurston

🎂 7th January 1891 (135 yrs) 📍 Notasulga, Alabama, USA

Known For

Biography

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.

Movies Featuring Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space (2023)

as Self (archive footage)

Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun (2008)

as Self (archive footage)

Zora Neale Hurston: A Heart with Room for Every Joy (2005)

as Self (archival)

Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940 (1940)

as Herself

Fieldwork Footage (1928)