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Zora Neale Hurston

1891 - 1960

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Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891: 17 : 5  – January 28, 1960) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Zora Neale Hurston has received more than 3,841,009 page views. Her biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Zora Neale Hurston is the 3,454th most popular writer (up from 3,522nd in 2019), the 4,411th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,661st in 2019) and the 364th most popular American Writer.

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  • 51.66

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 49

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.86

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.92

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Zora Neale Hurston ranks 3,454 out of 7,302. Before her are Vladimir Megre, Carlo Rosselli, Andreï Makine, Amos Tutuola, István Örkény, and Johann Ernst Glück. After her are Frédéric Dard, Nemesianus, Akazome Emon, Peter Straub, Mercedes de Acosta, and Doria Shafik.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Zora Neale Hurston ranks 148. Before her are Vladimir Petlyakov, Prince Maurice of Battenberg, Charles Bickford, Scott Bradley, Alberto Savinio, and Ágnes Esterházy. After her are W. Averell Harriman, Charley Patton, Victoria Kent, Franz Kaiser, Adolf Busch, and Emil Julius Gumbel. Among people deceased in 1960, Zora Neale Hurston ranks 113. Before her are Maud Menten, Hisamuddin of Selangor, Semyon Lavochkin, Pavel Peter Gojdič, Móric Esterházy, and Massimo Bontempelli. After her are Marcello Piacentini, Auguste Herbin, Dorothea Douglass Lambert Chambers, Antal Szalay, Roy Chapman Andrews, and Ioannis Georgiadis.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Zora Neale Hurston ranks 4,411 out of 20,380. Before her are Carol Lynley (1942), Franklin Clarence Mars (1883), Jeralean Talley (1899), Teddy Wilson (1912), Patrick O'Neal (1927), and Kent Nagano (1951). After her are Jason Alexander (1959), Moses Finley (1912), Edward S. Curtis (1868), Ted Cassidy (1932), Peter Straub (1943), and Arthur O'Connell (1908).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Zora Neale Hurston ranks 364. Before her are Spencer Johnson (1938), David Eddings (1931), Joyce Meyer (1943), Booker T. Washington (1856), Betty Mahmoody (1945), and Robert M. Parker Jr. (1947). After her are Peter Straub (1943), Mercedes de Acosta (1892), Bell hooks (1952), H.D. (1886), Octavia E. Butler (1947), and Gary Snyder (1930).

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