Zora Neale Hurston was confident, charismatic, and determined to be extraordinary.<BR>As a young woman, Hurston lived and wrote alongside such prominent authors as<BR>Langston Hughes and Alain Locke during the Harlem Renaissance. But unfortunately,<BR>despite writing the luminary work Their Eyes Were Watching God, she was always short<BR>of money. Though she took odd jobs as a housemaid and as the personal assistant to<BR>an actress, Zora often found herself in abject poverty. Through it all, Zora kept writing.<BR>And though none of her books sold more than a thousand copies while she was alive,<BR>she was rediscovered a decade later by a new generation of readers, who knew they<BR>had found an important voice of American Literature.