ORLANDO, Fla. - Today marks the 133rd anniversary of novelist Zora Neale Hurston's birth. Zora Neale Hurston was an author, anthropologist, and key figure of the Harlem Renaissance. Best known for ...

The Zoras will take place this year on October 17, kicking off a new tradition for the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Foundation Michael Nied has been a digital news editor with PEOPLE since 2025.

Zora Neale Hurston is one of the preeminent U.S. writers of the 20th century. She was a major player in the Harlem renaissance, known for mastering beautiful imagery and local dialect in her work.

Filmmaker Tracy Heather Strain talks about Zora Neale Hurston and her interest in capturing the rural Black folk in her writings and ethnographic work. In multiple trips to the south, Hurston shot ...

The Zoras will take place this year on October 17, kicking off a new tradition for the Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright ...