Zora Neale Hurston

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.

Birthday

Jan 7, 1891

Place of birth

Notasulga, Alabama, USA

Deathday

Jan 28, 1960

Credited in

As cast

Fieldwork Footage
As
Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940
As Herself
Zora Neale Hurston: A Heart with Room for Every Joy
As Self (archival)
Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space
As Self (archive footage)
Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun
As Self (archive footage)

As crew

Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940
Role: Director
The Gilded Six Bits
Role: Writer
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Role: Novel
Fieldwork Footage
Role: Director
Ethnographic Films
Role: Director
Kossula: Last of the Takkoi Slaves
Role: Director
Kossula: Last of the Takkoi Slaves
Role: Camera Operator
Fieldwork Footage
Role: Director of Photography