Born in Notasulga, Alabama, USA on January 7, 1891 — died January 28, 1960 (aged 69)
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.
