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Zora Neale Hurston:
January 7, 1891 – January 28, 1960
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. She also wrote over 50 short stories, plays, and essays.