Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston was a boisterous writer who was part of the Harlem Renaissance, a social and cultural movement that explored the experiences of black people in America during the 1920's. She used her background in anthropology at Barnard College to write short stories and essays about African American folklore. Her most famous novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, was published in 1937, because some people disagreed with the way she wrote African American dialogue, her works were not initially as popular as they later became. She had influence on black female writers like Alice Walker.