Zora Neale Hurston
Writing
January 7, 1891
Died January 28, 1960 (69 years old)
Notasulga, Alabama, USA
5
Acting Credits
4
Directed
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
Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space
Self (archive footage)
Fieldwork Footage
Fieldwork Footage
Zora Neale Hurston: A Heart with Room for Every Joy
Self (archival)
Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun
Self (archive footage)
Ethnographic Films
Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940
Herself
Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940
Filmography
Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space
2023
as Self (archive footage)
5
Zora Neale Hurston: Jump at the Sun
2008
as Self (archive footage)
8
Zora Neale Hurston: A Heart with Room for Every Joy
2005
as Self (archival)
Commandment Keeper Church, Beaufort South Carolina, May 1940
1940
as Herself
6.5
Fieldwork Footage
1928
5.7