Zora Neale Hurston was confident, charismatic, and determined to be
extraordinary. As a young woman, Hurston lived and wrote alongside such
prominent authors as Langston Hughes and Alain Locke during the Harlem
Renaissance. But unfortunately, despite writing the luminary work Their
Eyes Were Watching God, she was always short of money. Though she took
odd jobs as a housemaid and as the personal assistant to an actress,
Zora often found herself in abject poverty. Through it all, Zora kept
writing. And though none of her books sold more than a thousand copies
while she was alive, she was rediscovered a decade later by a new
generation of readers, who knew they had found an important voice of
American Literature.