Zora Neale Hurston is a real person portrayed by Bahni Turpin in the TV series American Experience (based on a true story).
In the first episode they appeared in, titled Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space (season 35), they were 60 years old.
They appear in 1 episodes out of a total of 387 aired so far
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Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space
episode S35.E2 january 2023An in-depth biography of the influential author whose ground-breaking anthropological work would challenge assumptions about race, gender and cultural superiority that had long defined the field in the 19th century.