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Zora Neale Hurston

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Profession
Novelist
Died
Jan 28, 1960
Zodiac
Capricorn
Born in
AL
About
One of the most prominent contributors to the Harlem Renaissance, she published her masterpiece novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, in 1937. Also a notable folklorist, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to carry out anthropological research in Haiti and Jamaica. In 1957, she worked at the  Pan American World Airways Technical Library. 
Family
She and her seven siblings were the Alabama-born children of a Baptist minister. She had two brief marriages: to jazz musician Herbert Sheen (1927-1931) and to Albert Price (1939).

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