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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 author, anthropologist, 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 3,655,278 page views. Her biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Zora Neale Hurston is the 3,535th most popular writer (down from 3,334th in 2019), the 4,673rd most popular biography from United States (down from 4,408th in 2019) and the 398th most popular American Writer.

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  • 3.7M

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  • 50.00

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.83

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.36

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Zora Neale Hurston ranks 3,535 out of 5,755. Before her are Philoxenus of Cythera, Ivo Brešan, Jiří Dienstbier, Gunter d'Alquen, Johannes Bobrowski, and Christopher Hampton. After her are Zenta Mauriņa, René Huyghe, Jalal Al-e-Ahmad, Simin Behbahani, Lina Sandell, and Oskar Luts.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Zora Neale Hurston ranks 149. Before her are Edward Bernard Raczyński, Greta Schröder, William F. Albright, Elvira de Hidalgo, Sultan al-Atrash, and Franz Kaiser. After her are Miguel Pro, W. Averell Harriman, Galaktion Tabidze, Harald Öhquist, Ágnes Esterházy, and Carl Spaatz. Among people deceased in 1960, Zora Neale Hurston ranks 118. Before her are Eduard Pütsep, Oscar Hammerstein II, Móric Esterházy, Toyohiko Kagawa, Carl Keenan Seyfert, and Igor Grabar. After her are Harry Schell, Ken McArthur, Semyon Bogdanov, Dirk Jan de Geer, André Patry, and Ward Bond.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Zora Neale Hurston ranks 4,673 out of 18,182. Before her are Albert Collins (1932), Lee Friedlander (1934), Clarence Nash (1904), Stephen Krashen (1941), Jim Reeves (1923), and Garrett Hardin (1915). After her are Adrienne Barbeau (1945), Platt Adams (1885), Marvin Hamlisch (1944), Winfield Scott Hancock (1824), John Marley (1907), and Rahsaan Roland Kirk (1935).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Zora Neale Hurston ranks 398. Before her are Varian Fry (1907), Carl Bernstein (1944), Herman Wouk (1915), Janet Asimov (1926), Henrietta Szold (1860), and Donna Tartt (1963). After her are Ralph Ellison (1914), Jonathan Littell (1967), Seymour Hersh (1937), Marta Kauffman (1956), Joe Haldeman (1943), and Octavia E. Butler (1947).

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