Even as a little girl, Zora Neale Hurston was confident, charismatic, and determined to be extraordinary. As a proud young girl who grew up in an all-black community in Eatonville, Florida, she didn't experience the prejudice that many African Americans felt at the time. In fact, she was so self-confident as a child that she thought the moon followed her wherever she went. She arrived in New York at the height of the Harlem Renaissance and quickly gained recognition for her work, making friends such as Langston Hughes and Alain Locke.
Despite her popularity, Zora was almost always poor and had to work as a personal assistant or housekeeper to feed herself. Still, she remained a proud woman who loved her life, her adventures, her friends, and her husbands. Though all her books were out of print by the time of her death in 1960, Zora's works, like the beloved classic "Their Eyes Were Watching God," were rediscovered only ten years later and inspired a whole new generation.
