Zora Neale Hurston

She was one of the interesting figures of the Harlem Renaissance. Zora was born in Florida, the first black township that was incorporated. She finished high school in Baltimore and studied at Howard University and eventually graduated from Barnard College. She established herslef as a writer of ficition. She suffered several accidents in her life. After the accidents she wrote a few more things and died while financial difficulty at age 69.