Zora Neale Hurston
Personal Info
Known for
Writing
Gender
Female
Birthday
1891-01-07
Day of Death
1960-01-28 (69 years old)
Place of Birth
Notasulga, Alabama, USA
Zora Neale Hurston
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.
Known For
Acting
(2023)
Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space
as Self (archive footage)
(2008)
Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun
as Self (archive footage)
(2005)
Zora Neale Hurston: A Heart with Room for Every Joy
as Self (archival)
(1940)
(1928)
Crew
(2005)
(2001)
The Gilded Six Bits
Writer
(1940)
(1929)
Ethnographic Films
Director
(1928)
Fieldwork Footage
Director
(1928)
Kossula: Last of the Takkoi Slaves
Director, Camera Operator