Birth Place: Eatonville, Florida
Date of Death: January 28, 1960
Setting: Rural Florida
Genre: Fiction



Zora Neale Hurston was born on January 7, 1891 in Eatonville, Florida, the first incorporated African-American community in the United States. Hurston's most famous work, Their Eyes Were Watching God, is the semi-autobiographical tale of her life in rural Florida.

Book List

Jonah's Gourd Vine, 1934

Their Eyes Were Watching God, 1937

Moses, Man of the Mountain, 1941

Seraph on the Suwanee, 1948

See Zora Neale Hurston books with a Florida setting.
See also It Takes Place in Florida: General Fiction.

Search Worldcat for availability of books at your local library.