![]() In her early career, Hurston conducted anthropological and ethnographic research while attending Barnard College. Eatonville would become the setting for many of her stories and is now the site of the Zora! Festival, held each year in Hurston's honor. Hurston was born in Notasulga, Alabama, and moved to Eatonville, Florida, with her family in 1894. Of Hurston's four novels and more than 50 published short stories, plays, and essays, her most popular is the 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. Zora Neale Hurston (7 January 7 1891-28 January 1960) was an influential author of African-American literature and anthropologist, who portrayed racial struggles in the early 20th century American South, and published research on Haitian voodoo. Set in central and southern Florida in the early 20th century, it has been regarded as influential to both African-American literature and women's literature. ![]() The novel explores main character Janie Crawford's "ripening from a vibrant, but voiceless, teenage girl into a woman with her finger on the trigger of her own destiny". Their Eyes Were Watching God is a 1937 novel considered a classic of the Harlem Renaissance, and Hurston's best known work. ![]()
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