Zora Neale Hurston
(1901–1960)

Zora Neale Hurston, writer and folklorist, was born and raised in the central Florida town of Eatonville. She was awarded Guggenheim fellowships in 1936 and 1938 for her work. She is perhaps best known for her novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937). By the time Hurston died in 1960, her writing had no longer attracted much attention and she was buried in an unmarked grave. However, the writer Alice Walker felt a personal debt to Hurston, and in 1973, Walker paid that debt by having a gravestone made for the neglected writer. The stone reads: "Zora Neale Hurston, 'A genius of the South,' 1901–1960. Novelist, Folklorist, Anthropologist." She is said to be the most published black female author in her time.

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