Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston

Writing

January 7, 1891 – January 28, 1960 (aged 69)

Notasulga, Alabama, USA

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.

Filmography

Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space
Movie
Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space2023 · Self (archive footage)
Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun
Movie
Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun2008 · Self (archive footage)
Zora Neale Hurston: A Heart with Room for Every Joy
Movie
Zora Neale Hurston: A Heart with Room for Every Joy2005 · Self (archival)
Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940
Movie
Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 19401940 · Herself
Fieldwork Footage
Movie
Fieldwork Footage1928