Harlem Renaissance author Zora Neale Hurston is best known for her novel “Their Eyes Were Watching God,” though most of her life was devoted to anthropology. She was unappreciated during her life, and interest in her work would not develop until years after her death in 1960.
Image: “Zora Neale Hurston at Federal Writer's Project booth at New York Times Book Fair” (1937). From the New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division
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