Novelist & anthropologist

Zora Neale Hurston

Wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God and collected folklore across the American South and the Caribbean. She died in poverty, in an unmarked grave, until Alice Walker found it.

Zora Neale Hurston was an American writer, anthropologist, folklorist, and documentary filmmaker. She portrayed racial struggles in the early-20th-century American South and published research on Hoodoo and Caribbean Vodou. The most popular of her four novels is Their Eyes Were Watching God, published in 1937. She also wrote more than 50 short stories, plays, an autobiography, ethnographies, and many essays. Some of her work, namely Tell My Horse (1937), explored ethnomusicological methods of study long before there were formal boundaries for the discipline, especially not boundaries that included the respectful study of communities of color. Hurston's unique background and exceptional approach to anthropology laid key foundations for the growth of ethnography, literature, and Africana Studies.

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Born
1891-01-07, Notasulga, Alabama, USAA Wednesday
Died
1960-01-28, Fort Pierce, Florida, USAA Thursday, aged 69
At birth
Sun in Capricorn, Moon in Sagittarius
Nationality
United States
Birth-time source
No birth time on record: Rodden X

Birth Chart

1891-01-07, Notasulga, Alabama, USA · time unknown, noon chart

America/Chicagothe zone used then

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Planetary placements
BodySignDegreeMotion
SunCapricorn17°12′Direct
MoonSagittarius8°34′Direct
MercuryCapricorn29°34′Retrograde
VenusSagittarius8°03′Direct
MarsPisces16°14′Direct
JupiterAquarius15°59′Direct
SaturnVirgo17°04′Retrograde
UranusScorpio1°02′Direct
NeptuneGemini4°22′Retrograde
PlutoGemini6°12′Retrograde

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Death Chart

1960-01-28, Fort Pierce, Florida, USA · time unknown, noon chart

America/New_Yorkthe zone used then

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Planetary placements
BodySignDegreeMotion
SunAquarius7°47′Direct
MoonAquarius13°53′Direct
MercuryAquarius9°14′Direct
VenusCapricorn1°50′Direct
MarsCapricorn10°46′Direct
JupiterSagittarius24°29′Direct
SaturnCapricorn12°39′Direct
UranusLeo19°30′Retrograde
NeptuneScorpio9°05′Direct
PlutoVirgo5°33′Retrograde

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