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Zora Neale Hurston

1891 - 1960

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Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891 – January 28, 1960) was an American writer, anthropologist, folklorist, and documentary filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-20th-century American South and published research on Hoodoo and Caribbean Vodou. The most popular of her four novels is Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937. She also wrote more than 50 short stories, plays, an autobiography, ethnographies, and many essays. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Zora Neale Hurston is the 3,268th most popular writer (up from 3,454th in 2019), the 4,718th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,411th in 2019) and the 371st most popular American Writer.

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Among writers, Zora Neale Hurston ranks 3,268 out of 7,302. Before her are Joan Brossa, Holger Drachmann, Venceslaus Ulricus Hammershaimb, Amy Lowell, Rutebeuf, and Maksym Rylsky. After her are Teimuraz II of Kakheti, Liviu Rebreanu, Filippo Buonaccorsi, Alasdair Gray, Olena Pchilka, and David Gemmell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Zora Neale Hurston ranks 145. Before her are Otto Ciliax, Wan Waithayakon, Galaktion Tabidze, Charles Journet, Pedro Salinas, and Charles Bickford. After her are Oskar Kummetz, José Enrique Varela, Mischa Elman, Federico Moreno Torroba, Vittorio Jano, and Princess Alexandra, 2nd Duchess of Fife. Among people deceased in 1960, Zora Neale Hurston ranks 107. Before her are Gottfried, Prince of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Sylvia Pankhurst, Adone Zoli, Frank Elmore Ross, Roy Chapman Andrews, and Erich Neumann. After her are Pavel Peter Gojdič, Maud Menten, Eduard Pütsep, Yury Olesha, Joseph Vendryes, and Friedrich Kirchner.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Zora Neale Hurston ranks 4,718 out of 20,380. Before her are Amy Lowell (1874), Natacha Rambova (1897), Paul Wesley (1982), Charles Bickford (1891), Albert Sidney Johnston (1803), and John Doman (1945). After her are Jimmy Smits (1955), Larry Black (1951), Dana Scott (1932), Evelyn McHale (1923), Steven Hill (1922), and Andrew Blake (1947).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Zora Neale Hurston ranks 371. Before her are Robert Penn Warren (1905), Robert Anderson (1917), Henry Darger (1892), Herman J. Mankiewicz (1897), E. E. Smith (1890), and Amy Lowell (1874). After her are Donna Tartt (1963), John Zerzan (1943), Booker T. Washington (1856), Edmund White (1940), John Perkins (1945), and Robert M. Pirsig (1928).

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