Known for her best work to date, Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937), Zora Neale Hurston was a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Her writings were expressive of the trials and tribulations, and rituals, African Americans (mainly women) faced in the 1920s and 1930s. Born in Alambama, and growing up in Florida. Hurston later attended Howard University while working as a manicurist. She then was pulled into the whirl wind of boyent authors, painters, and musicans. Later she dabbled in the field of anthropolgy to study african american folklore. Eventually Zora Neale Hurston's popularity waned, with her last book being published in 1948, she moved to back to Florida. In 1960 she died there in poverty, with her work and high status life forgotten. In the 1970s Alice Walker helped revive the works of Hurston's writing and poetry. Today her literature is taught as a part of curriculum in schools around the world.