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.

Known For - Movies

Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space

as Self (archive footage)

Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun

as Self (archive footage)

Fieldwork Footage

Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940

as Herself

Zora Neale Hurston: A Heart with Room for Every Joy

as Self (archival)