Person
Zora Neale Hurston
Writing · 1891–1960 · Notasulga, Alabama, USA
Biography
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.
Known for
American Playhouse
Theatre Play
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Novel
Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space
Self (archive footage)
Fieldwork Footage
1928
Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940
Herself
The Gilded Six Bits
Writer
Ethnographic Films
Director
Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun
Self (archive footage)
Zora Neale Hurston: A Heart with Room for Every Joy
Self (archival)
Kossula: Last of the Takkoi Slaves
Director
Filmography
- 2023Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a SpaceSelf (archive footage)
- 2008Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the SunSelf (archive footage)
- 2005Their Eyes Were Watching GodNovel
- 2005Zora Neale Hurston: A Heart with Room for Every JoySelf (archival)
- 2001The Gilded Six BitsWriter
- 1982American PlayhouseTheatre Play
- 1940Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940Herself
- 1929Ethnographic FilmsDirector
- 1928Fieldwork Footage
- 1928Kossula: Last of the Takkoi SlavesDirector
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