Zora Neale Hurston
- Born
- 7 January 1891 (69 years old)
- Died
- 28 January 1960
- Place of birth
- Notasulga, Alabama, USA
- Gender
- Female
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.