Hurston, Zora Neale
Hurston, Zora Neale ( c. 1891 – 1960 ),American novelist, folklorist, journalist, and critic, born in Eatonville, Florida, the first incorporated all-black town in America. She worked her way through university, where she studied cultural anthropology. She was a prolific writer during the 1920s and 1930s, prominent within the Harlem Renaissance: her works include Mules and Men ( 1935 ), a study of black American folklore in the South; the novel for which she is best known, Their Eyes Were Watching God ( 1937 ); plays, short stories, and Dust Tracks on a Road ( 1942 ), an ‘autobiography’. Writers such as Alice Walker and T. Morrison acknowledge their debt to her.
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