Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891 – January 28, 1960) 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. She also wrote more than 50 short stories, plays, and essays. source
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African American folklorist, novelist, short story writer, and Civic Rights advocate (1891-1960)
| Born | 1901 |
| Died | 1960 |
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African American folklorist, novelist, short story writer, and Civic Rights advocate (1891-1960)
| Born | 1901 |
| Died | 1960 |
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African Americans, Fiction, American literature, Drama, Social life and customs, Folklore, African American authors, Biography, Juvenile audience, Literature, African American women, Women authors, African americans, fiction, American drama, American fiction (fictional works by one author), Anglo-Saxons, Children's fiction, History, Hurston, zora neale, 1901-1960, Mystery and detective stories, Private investigators, amorality, aristocracy, detective fiction, locked-room mysteriesPlaces
United States, England, Florida, Calcutta, India, Surrey, Alabama, Andover, Barbados, China, Eastern Europe, Haiti, Jamaica, Mallard residence, Massachusetts, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Milford meeting house, Owl Creek Bridge, Salem, Salem (Mass.), Soviet Union, California, Fountain of Youth, Justice of the Peace Court, LouisianaPeople
Zora Neale Hurston, Grimesby Roylott, Helen Stoner, John H. Watson, Sherlock Holmes, Stroke Moran, Abigail Williams, Ann Putnam, Arthur Miller (1915-), Betty Parris, Brently Mallard, Bridget Bishop, Devil, Elizabeth, Elizabeth Proctor, Ezekiel Cheever, George Herrick, George Jacobs, Giles Corey, God, John Hale, John Hathorne, John Proctor, Josephine, Louise MallardTime
20th century, 19th century, 1692, 1861-1865, 1861-65, American Civil War, Civil War, 1861-1865, Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775, 1804-, 1844-, DecemberID Numbers
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- VIAF: 62824341
- Wikidata: Q220480
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