Judith Bloom Fradin

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