Personal Info
Known For
Writing
Born
January 7, 1891
Died
January 28, 1960 (age 69)
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
Film
Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space
Self (archive footage)
2023
Film
Zora Neale Hurston: A Heart with Room for Every Joy
Self (archival)
2005
Film
Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun
Self (archive footage)
2008
Film
Fieldwork Footage
1928
Film
Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940
Herself
1940
Filmography
2023FilmZora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Spaceas Self (archive footage)2008FilmZora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sunas Self (archive footage)2005FilmZora Neale Hurston: A Heart with Room for Every Joyas Self (archival)1940FilmCommandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940as Herself1928FilmFieldwork Footage