Zora Neale Hurston
Born in 1891
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Zora Neale Hurston was an American folklorist, anthropologist, and writer.
She was a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance, producing both fiction and nonfiction works that documented African American life in the South.
Her most famous novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, was published in 1937.
Hurston's ethnographic training at Barnard College influenced her writing, particularly in her book Mules and Men.
She received a Guggenheim fellowship to study conjure in Haiti and later covered a murder trial for the Pittsburgh Courier.
Despite her significant contributions to literature and anthropology, Hurston struggled to sell her fiction later in life.
