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Books by Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) was an American novelist, anthropologist, and folklorist associated with the Harlem Renaissance. She studied under Franz Boas at Barnard College and spent years documenting Black American folklore across the South and Caribbean, producing the landmark anthropological work Mules and Men (1935). Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937, is her most celebrated novel. Her work fell into obscurity after her death but was revived largely through Alice Walker's 1975 essay "In Search of Zora Neale Hurston." She died in poverty in Fort Pierce, Florida.