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*** ,1891
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January 28, 1960 (69 years old)
Zodiac Sign
Capricorn
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Celebrities born on January 7
Born in 1891
Born in Notasulga, Alabama
Capricorn named Zora
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Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston is an American writer, anthropologist and filmmaker. She describes the racial struggle in the early 1900s in the southern United States and publishes research on hoodoo. The most famous of her four novels was The Eyes Watching God, published in 1937. She has also written more than 50 short stories, plays and essays. Hurston was born in Notasulga, Alabama and moved with his family to Eatonville, Florida in 1894. She then used Eatonville as the setting for many of her stories. Now it is the site of the "Zora! Festival", held annually in his honor. Early in his career, Hurston undertook anthropological and ethnographic studies while still a student at Barnard and Columbia University. She is interested in African and Caribbean folklore and how these contribute to the identity of the community. She also writes novels on contemporary black community issues and became a central figure during the Harlem Renaissance.
BornJanuary 7, 1891, Notasulga, Alabama, U.S.
DiedJanuary 28, 1960, Fort Pierce, Florida, U.S.
OccupationFolklorist, anthropologist, ethnographer, novelist, short story writer, filmmaker
Alma materHoward University, Barnard College (BA)
Periodc. 1925–1950
Literary movementThe Harlem Renaissance
Notable worksTheir Eyes Were Watching God

About Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston

Novelist Zora Neale Hurston was born in Notasulga, Alabama, United States on January 7, 1891. She dies at the age of 69, on January 28, 1960.

One of the most prominent contributors to the Harlem Renaissance, she published her masterpiece novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, in 1937. She was also a well-known folklorist who received a Guggenheim Fellowship for anthropological studies in Haiti and Jamaica.

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Zora Neale Hurston before becoming famous

Zora Neale Hurston was born in the Zodiac sign Capricorn (The Sea-Goat), and 1891 is the year of the Chinese Zodiac Rabbit (兔).

During the early 1920s, she attended Howard University. A decade later, she graduated from Barnard College with a degree in anthropology and released Mules and Men, a folklore-heavy work.

Achievement of Zora Neale Hurston

In the 1920s, she went to Harlem and became a close friend of Poet Langston Hughes. However, the two later had a falling out over Mule Bone, a novel they co-wrote together.

Zora Neale Hurston's Family, Spouse, Dating and Relationship

Zora Neale Hurston
Zora Neale Hurston

She and her seven siblings were the children of a Baptist minister from Alabama. She was married twice, one to jazz musician Herbert Sheen (1927-1931) and the other time to Albert Price (1939).

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Her work was practically forgotten until novelist Poet Alice Walker reintroduced it to the public.

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