Arts & Literature
A legendary life
Zora Neale Hurston
January 7, 1891 – January 28, 1960
American novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist who documented and celebrated Black Southern culture.
Her story
A life that changed history
Zora Neale Hurston was a major Harlem Renaissance writer whose fiction drew upon the speech, folklore, and experiences of Black communities in the American South. Trained in anthropology under Franz Boas, she conducted fieldwork across the South and Caribbean and incorporated that research into works such as Mules and Men. Her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God is now a classic of American literature.
“There are years that ask questions and years that answer.”
Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), chapter 3