Zora Neale Hurst

Zora Neale Hurston (English: Zora Neale Hurston, January 7, 1891 - January 28, 1960), female, American Harlem Renaissance anthropologist, folklorist, and writer. She is the author of four novels and more than fifty short stories, plays and essays, among which the 1937 novel "Their Eyes Were Watching Heaven" is the most famous. Following renewed public interest in Hurston, her work was republished in 1975. After Hurston's death, the Smithsonian Institution discovered the original manuscripts of the folktales he wrote in the 1920s and compiled them into a volume called "Every Tongue Got to Confess," which was published in 2001.