Zora Neale Hurston
American author
Zora Neale Hurston was an American author, anthropologist, and documentary filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-20th-century American South and published research on hoodoo and Caribbean Vodou. The most popular of her four novels... Wikipedia
Born: January 7, 1891, Notasulga, AL
Died: January 28, 1960 (age 69 years), SLC Agape Seniors Rec Center, Fort Pierce, FL
Influenced by: Franz Boas, Fannie Hurst, and Ruth Benedict
Siblings: Sarah Emmeline Hurston
Parents: Lucy Ann Hurston and John Hurston
Spouse: Albert Price (m. 1939–1943) and Herbert Sheen (m. 1927–1931)
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