Known For
Writing
Gender
Female
Birthday
January 7, 1891
Died
January 28, 1960
Age
69
Place of Birth
Notasulga, Alabama, USA
Popularity
0.5
Zora Neale Hurston
Writing
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.
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Known For
6.6
American Playhouse
1982 · TV
5.0
Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space
2023 · Movie
5.7
Their Eyes Were Watching God
2005 · Movie
8.0
Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun
2008 · Movie
7.0
The Gilded Six Bits
2001 · Movie
6.5
Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940
1940 · Movie
5.7
Fieldwork Footage
1928 · Movie
0.0
Zora Neale Hurston: A Heart with Room for Every Joy
2005 · Movie
7.5
Ethnographic Films
1929 · Movie
0.0
Kossula: Last of the Takkoi Slaves
1928 · Movie
Filmography
2023
Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space
Movie · Self (archive footage)
5.0
2008
Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun
Movie · Self (archive footage)
8.0
2005
Zora Neale Hurston: A Heart with Room for Every Joy
Movie · Self (archival)
0.0
1940
Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940
Movie · Herself
6.5
1928
Fieldwork Footage
Movie
5.7