Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) was a novelist, folklorist, and anthropologist who grew up in Eatonville, Florida—one of the first all-Black incorporated municipalities in the United States. She studied under Franz Boas at Columbia, traveled the South collecting folklore, and became a central figure of the Harlem Renaissance. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by Their Eyes Were Watching God.