Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston was a Florida author and the Queen of the Harlem Renaissance. Her novels explored the lives of ex-slaves in the Deep South. Critics said she promoted stereotypes - she said they rejected black culture. Although she died penniless, her books out of print, black feminists resurrected her work.

Zora Neale Hurston has long been considered a literary giant of the Harlem Renaissance, but her anthropological and ethnographic endeavors were equally important and impactful. This is an in-depth biography of the influential author whose groundbreaking anthropological work would challenge assumptions about race, gender and cultural superiority that had long defined the field in the 19th century.